Froogle Now On Frontpage

Shopping? Try Froogle - Google's product search service.

[toddski07]

In the other thread it talks about Froogle results being displayed within the search results. But now I am seeing a link right off the main Google Search Page:

"Shopping? Try Froogle - Google's product search service."

The "try froogle" is linked to the Froogle site.

This is new for me. First day I have seen this link.

Todd

[Robino]

Yep, that's new!

I don't understand the whole "Beta" thing. What makes it beta?
I mean, it's linked from SERPs and Google.com.

[Chndru]

Aside from the homepage promo, now i see at the end of the results, way at the end.
A long blue box with

Shameless Self-Promotion
Shopping? Try Froogle - Google's product search service.

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[edited by: Chndru at 6:15 pm (utc) on Dec. 12, 2003]

[killroy]

For international Googlers:
[www-in.google.com...]

SN

[gibson335]

So, after one year, almost to the day, are we seeing the release of Froogle? With the Froogle link now added to the Google home page, will we see a substantial increase in traffic? I have been data-feeding to Froogle for quite some time, so I am going to monitor this very carefully on my sites. I would appreciate any feedback.

Thanks
gibson335

[mikeD]

Anyone seen the new froogle shopping link at the bottom of commercial serps

[amznVibe]

heh, well at least they are honest with the "Shameless Self-Promotion" tag at the end of it

Is the satisfaction survey new too or have I just not been paying attention?

[pleeker]

Screenshot and discussion over here [webmasterworld.com].

[Edouard_H]

Starting to see a number of froogle referrals - for the first time outperforming our google catalogs listing - and increasing daily. Not a huge percentage of total traffic, mind you, but a noticeable jump.

New holiday froogle logo too.

[toddski07]

New holiday froogle logo too.

And Gee...isn't the word "BETA" conveniently harder to see carved in the snow. I'm sure a consumer doesn't even know what "BETA" means (and if they even care) but it is funny from a developer's viewpoint.

Todd

PS- A client received their first "FROOGLE" referral last night from a non-data feed listing. I checked out how it looks on froogle and I must say Google did a nice job of capturing the right photo, title, description, and price from the web page itself.

[patting my back]Couldn't have been because of the great coding job done by the webmaster that helped Google gleen the proper info?! Hmmm...LOL.[/patting my back]

[gibson335]

Received a first sale from a Froogle search referral, maybe those months of data-feeds are going to pay off.

Thanks
gibson335