Comments on: Google Base, Froogle, and Google OneBox

By: Paul Salber

Paul Salber — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:16:20 +0000

Great post, you must be a perl parser wizard. Though our typical client has several thousand products, we also provide data feed management service, and have changed over to Google base too.

By: brett

brett — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 00:15:33 +0000

Googlebase isnt perfect but its getting there…Before Gbase, the data feeds to froogle used to take about a week to initially get approved, then, an additional week to actually see products anywhere…usually typing”Store:storename” into froogle. Now with googlebase, I’ve seen initial feeds go up in a couple of hours and updates show in a matter of hours…give the kids at google some more time, they’ll perfect gbase soon.

By: Brian Smith

Brian Smith — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 16:03:41 +0000

According to their FAQs, you're really supposed to only have one feed. Just to be on the safe side (they don't want duplicate listings), I'd phase out the Froogle feed. This should also force you to pay closer attention to your Google Base feed...start using those optional fields.

By: lisabbari

lisabbari — Tue, 27 Jun 2006 15:36:08 +0000

One thing that I am a little confused about is when to phase out the Froogle feeds and only send a Google Base feed. I asked my contact at Google and they essentially implied that I could continue to send both. However, I’m not sure if this will at some point have a negative impact on my listings (spamming?). Any insight here?