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Jean-Louis Cazaux wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2022 12:06 PM UTC:

This is a feedback not a critic. I'm not sure that anything can be done to improve.

Being based in France, I see ads from e-bay in French. But many are not related to chess. The reason is that "chess" is "échecs" in French, always at plural, with an "s" at the end. The word in singular, "échec" means "failure" in English. (It also means "check" which may complicate).

So, there several ads for books dealing with the failure of something, failure of education, failure of economy, whatever, but no relation at all with chess.

Hope this may help


Max Koval wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2022 01:15 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from 12:06 PM:

Maybe it would be reasonable to try blocking this particular word or item in the settings of your advertising provider (I can't say exactly if an eBay account is required). I'm not sure if the CV staff can help in this situation, although this seriously seems to be quite a fun case.


🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Sat, Feb 5, 2022 11:54 PM UTC in reply to Jean-Louis Cazaux from Tue Jan 25 12:06 PM:

Being based in France, I see ads from e-bay in French. But many are not related to chess. The reason is that "chess" is "échecs" in French, always at plural, with an "s" at the end. The word in singular, "échec" means "failure" in English. (It also means "check" which may complicate).

So, there several ads for books dealing with the failure of something, failure of education, failure of economy, whatever, but no relation at all with chess.

The search term has in fact been "echecs", but since you pointed it out, I did see some books in the preview for the books ad that used the world echec, such as L'ECHEC DE L'ISLAM. To fix this, I changed the search terms to "echecs -echec", and only books with "echecs" in the title showed up.


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