A method and system is provided to process sale listings published via a
network-based publishing system. The system may include monitoring and
ranking components. The monitor component may monitor activity pertaining
to at least one of a plurality of sale listings on behalf of a user of
the system. The ranking component may determine a number of users
monitoring the sale listing and to generate a ranking for the sale
listing based on the number of users monitoring the sale listing. The
system may be a web-based system including at least one web server that
provides the plurality of sale listings via the Internet to the plurality
of users. Monitoring criteria may be received relating to an extent to
which a plurality of sale listings are monitored by a plurality of users,
and the system may conduct a search of the plurality of listings
utilizing the monitoring criteria.