Terapeak has revamped its underlying architecture and launched new tools that will make studying eBay's hottest products and sales data easier and faster. "The new changes mean that users will notice faster search times, and have more control over the way that information is delivered to them," said Andrew Sukow, Chief Technology Officer.

Terapeak licenses eBay's market data to allow its clients to analyze the data for improving business performance and conducting market and competitive research.

The recent changes will enable users to find and filter results more easily and with greater precision. Search times are also more efficient and contain larger sets of data. Keyword searches are available for the past 90 days, up from 60; and eBay category trends can be viewed for the past year.

"This is exactly what I have been looking for as far as research goes. I can't imagine not using this forever," said Jim Warden, one of Terapeak's newest customers.

Another feature is the ability to export search results in Excel format. Users can build their own databases on the items that they are most interested in following. "Users can now create a custom research history and better understand the markets they compete in," said Chris Smith, Terapeak's Business Development Director. Customers are also able to now save their searches, and have the results emailed to them on a regular schedule.

Terapeak has also made many cosmetic upgrades. Their new interface is more graphical and the help system is noticeably more robust. Graphing technology has been upgraded, with users given more control over how trends are displayed. Graphs make use of multiple colors and trending lines to display information on several items or categories at once. A vastly improved area for researching listing feature efficiency and category comparison tool are some of the other upgrades.

Terapeak charges $9.95/month for Terapeak Lite and $16.95 for Terapeak Research Complete

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