[Sigia-l] Froogle

[Ginny Risk]

What a riot!  

Over a year ago, when they introduced http://catalogs.google.com/ which
was based on scanned images of catalogs, I wrote to suggest they ask for
data feeds instead of hard copy catalogs.  

I said it would be more useful for shoppers to offer a real text search,
and also that they could offer a publishing service similar to Highwire
Press ( http://highwire.stanford.edu/ ) which would benefit mail order
companies without online catalogs, or without good visibility.

The gist of the response was that it was not such a good idea and they
thought they were doing just fine, thank you.
No doubt someone else made a similar suggestion, and this time it was a
better idea.  ;)

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-admin at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-admin at asis.org] On Behalf
Of Peter Morville
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:01 AM
To: Sigia-l at asis.org
Subject: [Sigia-l] Froogle


http://froogle.google.com/

Would you like some froogle with your fragel?  Am I the only one who's
feeling a bit over-saturated by the growing Googleplex?  Is Google
destined to become the Microsoft of the Internet?  Or is Google all
Good?


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
www.semanticstudios.com