eBay Still (Secretly) Supports Dorking

They support it, but recently moved to aggressive keyword substitution. It's particularly bad if you search uncommon terms, as they'll immediately modify your search terms so they can provide more (irrelevant) results than the handful you wanted. Modern search makes me want to cry.

There's also the "we've streamlined your results" because you're too much of an idiot to actually search for what you want, but just in case click here to see the full results.

I can only expect it to get more hostile. Soon I'll be quoting every word in a search. I already had to update most of my saved searches with individually quoted words.

I do like some things. You can often write partial model numbers ending in a dash (even if there isn't normally a dash there) like dv-28- to search all variations (dv-28s, dv-28e). The classic booleans along with price filters are amazing for saved searches.

I'm not sure where the word "dorking" came from, but it is good to know the AND/OR/NOT search syntax. I figured out NOT on my own a while back, but not the other two.

They have probably earned 1000s of dollars in fees from me alone because of the feature.

Ken Rockwell has a similar list and other eBay advice: https://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/ebay/search.htm