Google introduces Froogle
Search December 12th, 2002
“Froogle is a new service from Google that makes it easy to find information
about products for sale online. By focusing entirely on product search, Froogle
applies the power of Google’s search technology to a very specific task:
locating stores that sell the item you want to find and pointing you directly to
the place where you can make a purchase.”
I wonder if this is available via Google’s web services API … it would be interesting to expand on Calin Uioreanu’s Amazon PHP API powered Simplest-Shop idea with Froogle.
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Froogle is not only a search engine like Google !
Initially, it should be known that Froogle technique is divided into 2 parts:
- the engine, which scans the Web in the search of product to be sold.
- The approved merchants, who make updates (when it is wanted, once per maximum day) of the products on a simple ftp and starting from a file txt with separator on the shema “category|price|designation|… “