[Sigia-l] Froogle

[Scott Raymond]

Peter Morville wrote:
> Is Google destined to become the Microsoft of the Internet?
> Or is Google all Good?


Many of you may have already seen this, but Paul Ford's future Google
scenario is relevant to the Froogle announcement:

   http://www.ftrain.com/google_takes_all.html

As cool as Froogle is right now, it's far from ideal. To use the same
example that Ford used, searching Froogle for "martin guitar" provides
43,000+ hits, but only 10 of the first 20 are relevant, and 5 of the 10 are
for the same low-end model. The same search on mysimon.com provides far more
useful results.

That said, I'm hopeful for Froogle. Of course, as it comes to rely more on
merchant-provided data feeds rather than screen scraping, its results will
improve. In theory, that should allow them to implement a more detailed
taxonomy, faceted browsing, etc.

I don't know if that's what the Google people have in mind, but it's what
they *should* have in mind.

 :sco