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Users of the eBay auction site in Chicago and across the nation this evening have been complaining of problems with the site’s search function. According to the eBay System Announcements page , “Due to errors in some of our backend systems, members may be seeing different errors in Search.” Some …

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Fears grew last night of another postal strike as deadlock continued in talks between Royal Mail and union leaders. More: continued here

eBay issued a statement to AuctionBytes this evening after a glitch caused a major outage to its search and browse functions that left shoppers unable to find listings. More: continued here

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If you’ve been on the web long enough, you’ll know that Twitter isn’t the first startup to have suffered scaling issues: the auction site had significant problems keeping the servers humming in its early days. Today eBay is giving users a small reminder of that era: eBay’s search engine is …

Wishing you could get a Motorola Droid and stand out from all your Android-toting friends at the same time? Then you might just want to consider bidding on this “limited edition” Droid prototype that just turned up on eBay, which has a reasonably good chance of being an actual Droid, …