Archive for October 2001 announcements

Leaderboard removed

Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Tue 30 Oct 2001

The leaderboard has been removed for the time being, as it was becoming slow due to the number of calculations involved.

Site changes and new features

Written by Trade Me staff at 12:00am, Fri 19 Oct 2001

Subscribe to a category

You can now get the latest listings in a category sent to you via email. To subscribe, go to the appropriate category and click the new 'subscribe' button on the right hand side.




Sort a category by latest listings or closing soon

You can now sort category listings by closing soon, or by latest listings.




New search engine


There have been changes to the search engine. Previously, if you searched for 'new ram',
you would only find listings containing the exact phrase 'new ram'.
The new search engine will search for either or both words, and returns results ranked in this order:


  1. An exact match for 'new ram' in a listing title
  2. An exact match for 'new ram' in a listing description
  3. Both the words 'new' and 'ram', but not next to each other. Eg: 'new 128Mb Ram'
  4. Listings with either 'new' or 'ram' but not both
  5. Listings with words containing 'new' or 'ram' Eg: 'newspaper', 'ramstein'

You will now get a lot more results from your searches, with the most relevant ones at the top of the list.


Buy and sell tabs, new "run an auction" page

We have added these 2 new tabs to make it easier to find what you're after, or sell something on the site.

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