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"If you've ever searched for something on eBay, you know it's a time-consuming balancing act, between the items that have nothing to do with what you're actually looking for, items you're watching, and items you're bidding on.  GetItNext  is an eBay search tool that's hoping to change all of that by severely simplifying the process.  And it's almost got it right.  \nIf you do a basic search on GetItNext, you'll see your results like most others.  From there you can see the details for each listing, watch it, email it to a friend, buy it or bid on it.  Just like eBay.  You can also refine your search, in three different ways.  If you'd like to add keywords, you can do so by clicking on a drop down menu that displays the associated keywords according to your current search.  Click on the ones you'd like to add to your own search, and continue browsing from there.  A second option lets you remove tag words from your search, simply reversing the first option by \"placing\" tags back into the tag cloud.  \nWhat's good about the adding and removing of tag words is that you can see what others have contributed, and this may actually help you in your search refinement.  It's a bit cumbersome to use, however, and doesn't seem to be directly manipulated by users' searches. \nLastly, there's a categories search refinement, which I find to be the most helpful of the three.  From here you can see a search \"tree\" which offers a nice visual that could help you narrow down your search.  For a tool that's so focused on searching a specific auction site, however, I'd expect many more advanced search options with GetItNext.  It's existing search refinement options are what some would consider basic search tools on other sites.  \nFor organization purposes, you can save items to your watched list, and you can also save searches.  These saving options seem to be tied to your cookies, and there are no account options for users to save these independently of your computer.  Aside from the practicality options that accounts would offer, I'd actually feel more comfortable having a password-protected account for GetItNext.  While eBay is encouraging the development of third party applications such as GetItNext and Auctomatic  through its APIs, etc., the company has also been launching more tools direct for its users, such as Countdown, Neighborhoods, and a desktop widget built on AIR.\n\n\n\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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