Posted by rasiel on 10/10/65 11:53

Jerry Stuckle wrote:
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> Ras,
>
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>
> To take your example - what if this listing is for "pumps"? Do you put
> it in "shoes" or "machinery"? OK, so you look for the word "shoes".
> But now it lists "horse shoes", as in the game.

these would be easy - in the first case the logic would simply ignore
pumps and those records skipped while in the latter the data would be
included; however, seeing that "horse shoes" or something similar would
be unlikely to appear in the shoes category the data would not be
seriously polluted. i am only thinking of having programming focus on
one ebay category, not the entire site. also, having a way to manually
delete invalid entries as outlined in the original post would be a
great tool for trimming out invalid records.

>
> Additionally, do you have permission from EBay to use their information
> in this way? All of it is copyrighted, and using it without their
> permission can get you and the developer in a lot of trouble. Of
> course, if this is for valid research, I would think they would be quite
> willing to grant that permission. And any responsible developer would
> want to ensure this is in place before starting.
>
this is more of a problem since it's notoriously difficult to get a
hold of a "real live person" in a posiion to grant such a request.
however, this is meant for my private use in compiling statistics
towards a book i'm writing so i see little reason why anyone would
object. it might even fall under the 'fair use' clause of copyright
law.

thanks again jerry!

ras

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