One of the biggest names in online auction stores, eBay has announced that, the critical search engine function in the company’s website has finally been restored and is fully functional now after a 24 hours outage of the search function.

About 24 hours ago, eBay had posted and announcement stating that the search function in ebay.com was down and numerous complained of zero results after keying in search queries. During the search blackout, the users experienced varied errors, such as “We were unable to run the search results you entered or Please try again in a few minutes.” and even blank browser pages.

However, as per the latest update, eBay has reportedly fixed the snag and the search function in the website is back in action. In a recent posting at eBay’s system board, the company has stated that, the search service was restored on Saturday night and as per the company’s statistics the functions is completely operational now.

However, in order to ensure that the newly corrected search system works flawlessly, eBay has decided to keep the secondary search features of the website offline. According to eBay,

“We are happy to report that critical search functionality was restored overnight on Saturday and we are seeing normal activity levels today. As part of our effort to restore critical search functionality as quickly as possible for sellers and for buyers, we have kept some secondary search features temporarily offline. This includes refining search by certain item specifics, such as color or clothing size, and having Store Inventory Format results included in the main search results. We expect to bring these features online today as part of a phased approach to restore full functionality.”

Via Central Gadget.