Google Product Search: Creating a Data Feed
Editor's Note: This is our monthly installment of "Everything Google," a feature on products and services from Google that can help ecommerce merchants. The author is Bill Hartzer, the owner of BillHartzer.com, a SEO, pay-per-click and ecommerce consulting firm in Dallas. Google Product Search is a price comparison service. Users can search for retail products and the search results then list vendors selling those items. The search results include photos, prices and links to the vendors' ecommerce sites. Google does not charge any fees for listings; it makes no commission on the sales of the products, and it doesn't accept payment for products to show up first. Google first launched its product comparison service in 2002 under the nam...