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Froogle AdWords listings

have they changed the size and look?

         

mona

3:11 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I'm pretty sure they always looked just like the regular SERPS, in the pretty pastel boxes. Now they're much bigger.

GoogleGuy

5:06 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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I think Froogle has been undergoing infrastructure improvements. The grid view is relatively recent, but we also now identify which products are found from a feed vs. which products were found on the web, and the page layout has changed a little bit (different colors, etc.).

pmac

5:09 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>we also now identify which products are found from a feed vs. which products were found on the web<

How are they identified?

shrirch

5:14 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Something about the pricing not being verified seperates crawled products from feed products.

pmac

5:22 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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Got an example? I can't see any distinction at all.

jcoronella

5:32 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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GoogleGuy:

When are you folks adding a tab for froogle?

I use the google search box for everything, and its awkward to be able to search for "nikon 4300" and have the Product Search options come up, but when I try again for "shoes" I get no shopping links and have to to type "www.froogle.com" into the address bar and start all over again. Be nice to just click the tab like you would for news, groups, etc.

Alternatively, you could use "froogle: product-name" similar to "define: word"?

mona

5:35 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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>How are they identified?
And why I are they identified. Why the distinction between the two now?

GoogleGuy

6:45 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)

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pmac/mona, if you take a search and start adding more and more specific words, at some point you'll see the breakdown. Um, here's a search:
[froogle.google.com...]

That page includes results from feeds where we can reliably tell the price. Further down are results from crawling the web where we're not certain about the price, but the results may still be useful to searchers. See also
[froogle.google.com...]
(question 7). Look for a green bar that says "The results below were automatically extracted from web pages. Price and category information are uncertain." We can't be positive that those prices/snippets/images are correct because we found them as we crawled the web, but there's a good likelihood that users would find that info helpful, so we include it after the data that we're certain about. It helps a lot when looking for obscure stuff, for example.

superscript

6:52 pm on Dec 6, 2003 (gmt 0)



Hi GG,

A couple of questions:

What if the feed, and therefore perhaps the prices, are out of date in the upper portion of the Froogle SERPs?

Is there any widescale way for Google to test the veracity of feeds especially w.r.t. prices?

- sorry, a 3rd question:

They all look like $ prices, when will Froogle be available in the UK / other countries?

Many thanks