Goodbye Google Shopping

[Pulsar]

I used to love google shopping.

I started out WAY back when at sites like MySimon, and a handful of others that indexed every shopping site so you could competitively shop them.

Over time, google released their site accessible at www.froogle.com (google shopping beta) which eventually made it's way to mainstream.

It was great. The power of their search engine behind a product search.

Then, they destroyed it. At first I thought "Hey, how bad can it really be?". I was searching today for a keyboard case (88 key, hard, with wheels) and a double rifle case (hard).

The two models I was interested in cannot even be FOUND by going through google shopping. You would not even know they existed. I went to Bing and found them on the first try, even though bing's shopping website was designed by 2 year olds with crayola crayons and is about as useful.

See you later google shopping. One more google service I won't return to as their "Do no evil" motto gets thrown out and their "Make more money" motto takes it's place.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Ok

 

[Lifted]

I love you Google Shopping. Thanks for all the money and time you've saved me. :thumbsup:

 

[Pulsar]

I love you Google Shopping. Thanks for all the money and time you've saved me. :thumbsup:

Absolutely. It's unfortunate that it's no longer the same google shopping it used to be. I loved it right up until the day they changed it.

The pay-to-play scheme google has enforced has wiped a lot of the small businesses right off site. Items you used to get 100's of results for now leave with one, or two.

 

[JTsyo]

Isn't Google changing it to a pay to be listed deal? So things might not show up unless the companies sign up with Google.

 

[lokiju]

Just install "The Invisible Hand" extension for Chrome or Firefox. Then do a search and it'll find the cheapest price for you. You can also click the drop down to see other sites that carry it and their cost.

 

[grohl]

I can usually find the cheapest price on Amazon

But I still goto google, "just in case"

 

[darkewaffle]

See you later google shopping. One more google service I won't return to as their "Do no evil" motto gets thrown out and their "Make more money" motto takes it's place.

Just how is choosing to not index firearms making them more money?

 

[Rumpltzer]

I've not found Google Shopping to be very useful because it returns too many crap Web sites that you don't want to buy from. Worse, it'll return the results with "5-star seller rating" labels, and I do wonder how many people are fooled into thinking that's safe.

Try it. Enter "Nikon D7000" into Google and go to the shopping link. Now sort by total price and look at those 5-star sellers. Now, go read the full reviews on ResellerRatings. They're fake reviews.

I understand that this is ResellerRatings who isn't managing their reviewers, but Google is perpetuating the problem.

 

[Krazy4Real]

Just install "The Invisible Hand" extension for Chrome or Firefox. Then do a search and it'll find the cheapest price for you. You can also click the drop down to see other sites that carry it and their cost.

Never heard of this. I'll give it a shot. I also used to use google shopping all the time. It sucks now.

 

[mrCide]

Priceblink and amazon.com are what i use these days.. and SD of course.

 

[bfdd]

Absolutely. It's unfortunate that it's no longer the same google shopping it used to be. I loved it right up until the day they changed it.

The pay-to-play scheme google has enforced has wiped a lot of the small businesses right off site. Items you used to get 100's of results for now leave with one, or two.

Because Google is just like every other giant corp.

 

[jagec]

Just how is choosing to not index firearms making them more money?

Keeps nutjobs from suing them as an accessory to gun violence, and keeps well-educated lefties (a major demographic of Google users) from boycotting them on ideological grounds.