API Best Match Now Equals Site Best Match

We are pleased to announce that as of 21 Jan, 2009 the Shopping and Trading APIs have been updated to improve their Best Match search results.

Now, when you use the BestMatch or BestMatchSort sort options when making a search call, you get results that look more like the search results you get on the eBay site. This is because we have been able to incorporate new ranking factors like Recent Sales into the API.

No code change is needed to benefit from this update. Your call input and output will remain exactly the same. However, the content of the result set will improve.

The following calls have been updated:

Shopping API

• FindItems
• FindItemsAdvanced

Trading API

• GetCategoryListings
• GetSearchResults

For more details on this change, see the Shopping API Release Notes and the Trading API Release Notes.