eBay have a few interesting pages that are hidden away from view:
eBay pulse gives a daily snapshot of current trends, hot picks and cool stuff, e.g., the top ten popular searches at present are: psp, ipod, caravan (?), laptop, mini moto, e (?), ipod mini, samsung d500, lacoste, and cars.
Common Keywords gives a directory of all keywords listed alphabetically, products only, by category or by shop (although the products only option seems to be broken by poor server configuration).
I’ve written a perl script to parse all the common keywords and have a text file listing them here: ebay common keywords.
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I have often seen reminiscences of people I have never even heard of, and I fail to see -- because I do not happen to be a 'Somebody' -- why my blog should not be interesting. My only regret is that I did not commence it when I was a youth.