eBay experienced a search outage Monday night. The problem occurred as early as 11:49 pm PST, and eBay posted an alert at 11:52 pm on its System Announcement Board:
Members searching for items were seeing the error "We were unable to run the search you entered."
Twenty-five minutes later, eBay posted an announcement stating the problem had been resolved:
We have corrected the problem and member will no longer see these errors. Thank you for your patience.
Half a dozen people tweeted about the problem at about 11:30 pm on Monday evening. eBay had had a major search outage in November in which it credited sellers accounts, it's not known if this is a related issue.
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eBay experienced a search outage Monday night. The problem occurred as early as 11:49 pm PST, and eBay posted an alert at 11:52 pm on its System Announcement Board: