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Ebay
Mon Nov 18 2024
Introducing eBay Evo: The Evolution of eBay’s Brand and Design System
Developed in-house, Evo enhances the customer experience through a modern and simplified approach.
Wed Sep 25 2024
eBay Empowers Sellers with Innovative Tools at eBay Open 2024
eBay's commitment to innovation takes center stage at eBay Open 2024.
How eBay’s AI Tools Helped This Seller ‘Work Smarter, Not Harder’
Ashley Moulder uses eBay’s background removal tool to save time and make her listings shine.
Magical Bulk Listing Tool is eBay’s Latest AI-Powered Time Saver for Sellers
Introducing a new way for sellers to save work, time, and effort every day.
Thu Aug 08 2024
eBay Introduces Intuitive Search Redesign to Elevate Shopper Experience
Introducing a more seamless and visually rich shopping experience.
Mon Jul 08 2024
eBay Advertising Unveils New Dashboard, Personalized Insights, and Intuitive Campaign Tools
Introducing a reimagined, redesigned advertising experience to help sellers grow their business.
eBay’s Magical Listing Tool Wins AI Breakthrough Award for ‘Best Overall Generative AI Solution’
eBay’s magical listing experience uses generative AI to save sellers time and effort.
Fri Jun 14 2024
eBay’s Christine Su Named to Fast Company’s 2024 Queer 50 List
Su has found innovative new ways to use AI to personalize the eBay experience for sellers and buyers.
Tue Jun 04 2024
Background Enhancement Tool Turns Any Photo Into a Studio-Quality Product Image
eBay’s new AI-powered feature makes it simple for sellers to create beautiful listings that reflect their brand and help grow their business...
Tue May 07 2024
eBay’s Mobile App Offers a Goldmine of Insights for Sellers
Now available on iOS and Android, Product Research puts three years of eBay sold listings data in the palm of your hand.
Mon May 06 2024
Enter eBay’s 2024 University Machine Learning Competition
The annual contest is back with a fresh challenge for U.
Tue Apr 09 2024
Introducing Shop the look: eBay curating personalized outfits with AI
Powered by eBay.
Fri Mar 08 2024
eBay's Responsible AI Principles
We've adopted five guiding principles for the responsible use and development of AI.
Thu Feb 29 2024
Cutting Through the Noise: Three Things We've Learned About Generative AI and Developer Productivity
Learn how eBay is deploying AI at scale to unlock employee productivity.
Wed Feb 28 2024
Podcast: Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov on AI, the Future of Shopping Online, and the Value of Building In-House
Hear from eBay's Chief AI Officer on a recent episode of the Bloomberg Intelligence podcast 'Tech Disruptors.
Thu Feb 15 2024
Meet the Winners of the 5th eBay University Machine Learning Challenge
Members of the winning team, NullPointer, will join eBay for a 2024 summer internship.
Mon Feb 12 2024
Lauren Wilcox Named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member
eBay's Lauren Wilcox named 2023 ACM Distinguished Member for contributions to responsible AI and human-centered computing.
Mon Dec 18 2023
New Social Caption Generator Uses AI to Help Sellers Post More Easily
eBay sellers now have a new tool to make social sharing easier, all powered by AI.
Mon Dec 04 2023
eBay VP Ishita Majumdar Featured in Diversity Woman Media’s Power 100 List
Ishita joins leaders in technology, transportation, retail, and medicine in Diversity Woman Media’s third annual list.
Mon Nov 27 2023
Introducing an Accessibility Linter for Marko: Shortening the Accessibility Testing Pipeline
Our goal: Help developers create better code, more efficiently, while maintaining accessibility for all.
Wed Nov 15 2023
How We Export Billion-Scale Graphs on Transactional Graph Databases
By leveraging Apache Spark, eBay Graph Database can export a graph with billions of vertices and edges.
Wed Nov 01 2023
eBay’s first Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov Recognized in Insider’s AI 100 List
Nitzan’s work ensures that eBay can magically and responsibly deliver AI-powered experiences.
eBay Exec on How Artificial Intelligence Will Bring a ‘Paradigm Shift’ to Ecommerce
Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov predicts how AI will transform the online shopping experience.
Tue Oct 03 2023
Evolving Recommendations: A Personalized User-Based Ranking Model
We developed a ranking model to generate personalized recommendations that optimally ranks hundreds of candidate recommendations by consider...
Wed Sep 13 2023
Beyond Words: How Multimodal Embeddings Elevate eBay's Product Recommendations
By integrating information from different modalities of eBay listings such as titles and images, we greatly improved the buyer experience an...
Thu Sep 07 2023
eBay’s Commitment to Responsible AI: Q&A With Dr. Anna Zeiter, Chief Privacy Officer, Associate General Counsel for Privacy, Data & AI
Why eBay sees responsible AI as a priority that can’t wait.
‘Magical’ Listing Tool Harnesses the Power of AI to Make Selling on eBay Faster, Easier, and More Accurate
eBay’s new magical listing tool uses artificial intelligence to extrapolate details about listings from images.
Fri Jul 21 2023
eBay Execs Talk Generative AI and Computer Vision at VentureBeat Transform Conference
Chief AI Officer Nitzan Mekel-Bobrov and Vice President of Seller Experience Xiaodi Zhang shared how AI will make life easier for sellers, b...
Mon Jul 10 2023
Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of eBay’s Mobile App
There was, unbelievably, a time before apps.
Tue Jun 27 2023
eBay Chief Technology Officer Mazen Rawashdeh Talks AI, Embracing Tech Disruption on Bloomberg Podcast
Mazen shared his perspective on emerging technology trends and how eBay is embracing the disruption, bringing new customer experiences power...
Tue May 30 2023
eBay’s Common Automation Solution for Platform Evolution
Here at eBay, we’ve crafted a brand new approach to automate platform evolution for all applications — one that provides a repeatable and re...
Mon May 01 2023
eBay’s Blazingly Fast Billion-Scale Vector Similarity Engine
The Similarity Engine's use cases include item-to-item similarity for text and image modality and user-to-item personalized recommendations ...
Fri Apr 07 2023
How eBay Modernized the Most Important Page on Our Platform
eBay's core page — the View Item page — gets 250 million views per day.
Fri Mar 31 2023
How eBay's New Search Feature Was Inspired By Window Shopping
A new feature generates customer delight by using modern computer vision techniques to drive new search paradigms through visual discovery.
Tue Mar 14 2023
How eBay Made Its New Accessibility Tool — And Made It Available to All
Several eBay teams worked together to create a plug-in that makes it easy to include accessibility in a design right from the start.
Fri Feb 24 2023
Open-Source Contribution: New Maven Dependency Resolution Algorithm
It’s been effective at speeding up productivity, pushed to eBay, and contributed back to the open source community.
Tue Jan 31 2023
Variable Hub: Easier Data Integration for Risk Decisioning
A new risk data hub for decisioning can significantly boost variable time-to-market, with high performance under billions of query traffic.
Thu Jan 26 2023
API Evolution Is a Challenge. Could Contract Testing Be the Solution?
Contract testing has grown in popularity in recent years with the widespread adoption of microservice architectures.
Wed Jan 11 2023
eBay Announces Winners of 4th Annual Machine Learning Challenge
Using the power of natural language understanding, these two students created fantastic solutions.
Mon Jan 09 2023
How eBay Created a Language Model With Three Billion Item Titles
By leveraging deep learning techniques to compare the titles of product listings, we greatly improved the relevance of our recommended items...
Thu Dec 15 2022
How eBay’s Notification Platform Used Fault Injection in New Ways
eBay’s notification platform team built a fault-tolerant, resilient system by injecting faults in the application level.
Mon Dec 05 2022
Why and How eBay Pivoted to OpenTelemetry
eBay makes a crucial pivot to OpenTelemetry to better align with industry standards for Observability.
Mon Oct 24 2022
Increase A/B Testing Power by Combining Experiments
How the powerful meta-analysis method called "weighted z-test" can help eBay become more efficient.
Mon Oct 10 2022
New Buyer Groups Tool Brings Personalized Marketing to eBay Sellers
Sellers in the U.
Thu Sep 08 2022
Multi-Objective Ranking for Promoted Auction Items
Determining which promoted auction items to display in a merchandising placement is a multi-sided customer challenge that presents opportuni...
Wed Aug 17 2022
Sherlock.io: An Upgraded Machine Learning Monitoring System
Billions of queries require new, smarter alerting features.
Wed Jul 13 2022
eBay's Notification Streaming Platform: How eBay Handles Real-Time Push Notifications at Scale
A case study demonstrates how eBay's Notification Engineering team optimizes a streaming system in a microservice architecture to support hi...
Tue Jun 14 2022
Multi-Relevance Ranking Model for Similar Item Recommendation
Buyers reveal a whole range of behaviors and interests when they browse our pages, so we decided to incorporate these additional purchase in...
Thu May 19 2022
OpenFeature, With Contributions From eBay, Submitted to CNCF's Sandbox Program
The new open feature flagging standard enables companies to deliver cloud-native applications more effectively.
Fri Apr 29 2022
eBay’s 3rd University Machine Learning Competition: Predicting Shipping Delivery Dates
For our annual ML competition, we challenged university students to predict how many days a carrier takes to deliver packages.
Tue Apr 05 2022
Improving Shopping Recommendations for Customers Through eBay’s Relevance Cascade Model
Under the new machine learning model, buyers are recommended items that are more aligned to their shopping interests on eBay.
Tue Mar 01 2022
Building a Deep Learning Based Retrieval System for Personalized Recommendations
A step-by-step guide on how to build a state-of-the-art recommender system in an industrial setting.
Fri Feb 11 2022
How eBay Developed an Automatic Testing Solution for Batch Application Upgrades
A look at how our eBay technologists created an automatic testing solution for batch applications.
Mon Feb 07 2022
Creating High-Quality Staging Data with a NoSQL Data Migration System
At eBay, we’ve focused on improving our staging environment to increase our software delivery speed, which ultimately allows us to launch fe...
Thu Feb 03 2022
Expanding the eBay Ads Portfolio with Promoted Listings Express
Sellers can now promote their auction listings on eBay.
Fri Jan 14 2022
A Lightweight Distributed Architecture to Handle Thousands of Library Releases at eBay
A new lightweight distributed architecture is proposed and applied on eBay’s release system to support thousands of libraries release work i...
Thu Dec 16 2021
GraphLoad: A Framework to Load and Update Over Ten-Billion-Vertex Graphs with Performance and Consistency
GraphLoad is a scalable graph loading framework eBay developed and deployed in production.
Tue Dec 14 2021
eBay’s Mavenization Strategy of Legacy Domain Business Libraries
Wed Dec 08 2021
The Staging Dichotomy: Part Two
A two-part series on how eBay turned around an impeding staging environment into its biggest asset for developer productivity.
Mon Dec 06 2021
The Staging Dichotomy: Part One
Tue Nov 30 2021
eBay’s Global Secondary Indexes
Fri Nov 19 2021
Rethink Modals Management in React
A small, zero-dependency utility to manage modals for React.
Mon Nov 15 2021
eBay Event Notification Platform: Listener SDKs
Thu Oct 28 2021
Faster Shipping Speeds for Cross-Border Orders
eBay is making it easier for our customers to ship items faster and know when their items will arrive.
Thu Sep 30 2021
Groot: eBay’s Event-graph-based Approach for Root Cause Analysis
The framework achieves great coverage and performance across different incident triaging scenarios, and also outperforms other state-of-the-...
Thu Sep 23 2021
The Engineering Behind Coded Coupons, eBay’s New Seller Tool
This tool was developed by using a dual-write system — including Oracle and MongoDB.
