eBay snaps up AI-powered Expertmaker to clean up its messy listings

As a result, users are forced to wade through pages and pages of listings to find the exact item they're looking for. That could push a lot of customers to rivals like Amazon.com, Inc., which is why eBay has finally done something about it. On Thursday, eBay announced that it's agreed to acquire Swedish software make Expertmaker, which specializes in AI and machine learning systems that can help to analyze and organize massive sets of data. It's just what the doctor ordered for eBay, which hosts an average of 900 million listings at any one time. Expertmaker has actually been working with eBay since 2010, most recently helping out with a "structured data" project aimed at making eBay's site less cluttered than it currently is.