[Sigia-l] Froogle

[Noreen Whysel]

I forgot about MySimon.com.  I guess I only use that interface when I want 
to do a lot of comparison shopping (electronics, appliances, etc).

Noreen






>From: "Scott Raymond" <sco at scottraymond.net>
>To: <Sigia-l at asis.org>
>Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Froogle
>Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 15:59:52 -0600
>
>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
>
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