Friday, September 30, 2005

Fatfingers


No matter how well you type, you’re going to make typos from time to time. In most situations, you can catch your mistakes before you publish them, but if you don’t thoroughly check your work, you may end up sending your blunders out to the world. We all do it, and it usually isn’t that big of a deal, but when your mistakes cost you money, that’s a little more serious. Since there are so many eBay listings that get posted on a daily basis, you can just imagine how many of them contain misspelled content. With Fat Fingers, you can use this to your advantage.

Some of the mistakes are minor, and others are ridiculously obvious, but in both cases, they'll affect the search results that eBay gives to you. The fact is that there are some great goods that you're not going to find easily due to these misspellings. Fat Fingers allows you to type in the keyword that you're interested in, and it will then search eBay with a bunch of variations based off of your original query. By doing this, a whole slew of new listings will likely appear at bargain prices because other eBay users haven't been able to find them. The site also allows you to do the same thing with Google.

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