Google Shopping‘s pay-to-play service is going global. The commerce-focused vertical formerly known as Google Product Search, is now expanding the roll out of its commercial model to other countries outside the U.S., including the U.K., Germany, France, Japan, Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Brazil, Australia and Switzerland. The announcement comes on the heels of the completion of the U.S. transition… → Read More
Although it wasn’t among the services Google axed during its latest bout of “spring cleaning,” it’s definitely the end of an era for Google Shopping: starting on October 17th, the service formerly known as Google Product Search will make the full transition to a Paid Listings Service here in the U.S. It’s another example of Google’s changing position on what’s known as “paid inclusion.” In other… → Read More
Looks like Google is rolling out more tests with integrating results from its Shopping / Product Search engine (former Froogle) in traditional web search queries, right before the start of the holiday period. This isn’t necessarily new (see this WebMasterWorld forum entry from November 2007), but it does appear to be more widespread now. Our tipster says he’s had 5 of his friends test queries like… → Read More
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