Today I tried to look at one of my listings by typing the two keywords into an ebay search.

The item is a 'Planet lamp' & I typed in these two words- but my listiing did not appear amongst the 20 others currently listed for sale.

I tried both my laptop & ebay phone app with the same (lack of) result.

Later I was at a friend's house and used his computer and my listing didn't show up either.

I then tried typing 'purple Planet lamp' and voila, the listing appears in the search results.

Can anyone offer an explanation as to why this might be so?

There are 8 watchers on the item (that's been listed for 22 days) so (at least some) people are managing to find the listing

My grievance is that most buyers would probably just type in Planet lamp and I'm wondering if they too would not see my listing.

I usually don't search my items in this way and it makes me wonder how many of my current/previous listings might be similarly affected.