Google Base To Replace Froogle 68
An anonymous reader writes "Google plans to introduce a new shopping feature in time for the holiday season. Soon products on Google Base will be searchable via the regular search box. Simultaneously, Google intends to de-emphasize its own Froogle shopping search engine; Google intends for Froogle to no longer be a standalone Web site." From the article: "When people search for products on Google.com, the system will present them with another search box so that they can refine their query, according to Bear Stearns & Co analysts. After people refine their query, Google takes them to a second page populated with product results from the Google Base listings service. 'Ranking will be determined by the attributes that the sellers listed for the product as well as by relevancy,' the analysts wrote. Currently, Google has no plans to monetise this product-search capability with display ads or listing fees, but that could change, they wrote. "
Err, okay (Score:2, Funny)
I need some sleep, I read that as "Stern Bears Analysts" and thought, man that must be a tough firm to work for!
Re:Err, okay (Score:4, Funny)
You're a true American. One of The Heroes. We'll incorporate that into the Threat-Down.
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Oh, that's already covered. [threatdowngenerator.com]
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Oblig. (Score:1, Funny)
(sorry)
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Dude, we don't care if you have ferrets named Captain and Cats by your exgf. How can that information possibly improve our lives? And what the crap is an exferret? Is it like a ferret that leaves with your gf, who named it? Or did it just roll over and die?
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" Or did it just roll over and die?"
No, it's pining for the fjords.
someone missed a point (Score:1, Offtopic)
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It's about time! (Score:5, Interesting)
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Re:It's about time! (Score:4, Informative)
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=cheap+ipod+-c
Want to get rid of the AC chargers too?
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=cheap+ipod+-c
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You just click on a link list only a specific price range and then sort by prices.
Did you really think you will get a serious (not ripoff) offer for an Ipod for under 50 bucks? Well, if you find it contact me, because I am not clicking through that stuff.
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Also, whatever it is Google are up to it sounds confusing. Is it really going to make it easier to find products?
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Doesn't eBay have a patent on that "feature?"
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Great, Froogle was a waste... (Score:5, Interesting)
Plus, on top of that it's search wasn't accurate enough. For instance, if I searched for "television" and "LCD" then it would throw in a bunch of peripheral items that I would then have to search through. Doing a search for that now seems to be a bit more accurate than last I checked though, perhaps they are making it more accurate.
Either way, combining it with the regular search engine would be a great idea in my opinion. That'll make it more efficient to do searches.
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Re:Great, Froogle was a waste... (Score:5, Insightful)
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Not if the consumer didn't click on the ad, and instead clicked on the lower price in the search results. Google only charges per click, not for just showing the ad.
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Plus, on top of that it's search wasn't accurate enough. For instance, if I searched for "television" and "LCD" then it would throw in a bunch of peripheral items that I would then have to search through. Doing a search for tha
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Also, very interesting about Google advertising and conflict of interest in search returns that they had. There has to be a better way to do it. Perhaps to display exact pricing, but those
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He might as well have said, "Relevancy will be determined by the amount of relevancy told to us by the sellers, as well as by relevancy." Google's whole thing is pagerank, and I don't think they have come close to duplicating the success of that in anything except hyperlinked documents. Initiatives like this make me feel like Google is just throwing in their lot with all the others, but I guess we
Makes sense... (Score:1)
Finally a base for nerds (Score:2)
This is wrong. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:This is wrong. (Score:4, Insightful)
Having said that, in principle I do like the idea of Google promoting Base. This World desperately and urgently needs a strong eBay competitor, and a Cragslist competitor too for that matter. (Craigslist being the nouveau chic site de jour for spammers and scammers - and that's one org that's letting them all win hands down. Since their staff don't review listings, Craigslist even has a neat way of spammers find out their marketing penetration using the report spam button on the listings - you can figure out how many folk saw your ad by how long it stays up - yay! a free gift to all spammers! Seriously, why wouldn't you want to spam on Craigslist!!!?).
What would be great though is if Google could allow users to choose to avoid Base if they wished - in the way they could with Froogle. If I want information from the web, I rarely want to buy it. If I want to buy something from the web, I know where to look. There's rarely any overlap. I doubt I am alone in that.
Or, if any smart person would happen to know of, or would like to develop a Firefox extension to filter out shopping sites in search, I for one would be eternally grateful.
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It can even be persistent as I already logged into my google/gmail account.
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Google has more than enough money. They can live wi
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Fine, replace froogle... (Score:3, Funny)
Making money (Score:3, Interesting)
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The other big thing is that it does not support any type of automated voiding of orders.
Oh, not to mention the fact that it lacks any kind of integration points common with other payment API's (PayPal, Verisign...).
Plus, you can't integrate it with other google products like Google Analytics or Adwords. Since the user is not directed back to a congratulations page, you have no way to notify statistics applications of a succesful checkout.
Thanks,
Branding Mistake (Score:4, Interesting)
Re:Branding Mistake (Score:5, Funny)
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"Base" as in DataBase. It's supposedly not just for shopping, but also for content hosting.
Very old news (Score:3, Informative)
in time for the holiday season (Score:2, Funny)
Hmm... Google (Score:1)
Google base interface (Score:2)