January 2003 SE Updates
January 7th, 2003
Search Engine Updates for...
| Overture | Inktomi | AltaVista | Lycos | ODP | LookSmart | Yahoo |
In this month's issue...
- Froogle, Google's New Product Search
- New Toys in Google Lab's
- HotBot Reinvented
- Fast Adds File Types and more
- Fast Warns SEO Tool Users
- Yahoo buys Inktomi
Google Update - http://www.google.com
What's new
Froogle, Google's New Product Search
December 12th, 2002 Google unveiled their new beta product search project called Froogle. According to Google, Froogle is a product search engine that ranks store sites based on their relevance to the search terms you have entered.
Merchant sites (automatically) get into Froogle after being spidered by Google's regular spider, or by submitting a data feed.
At this time Froogle accepts only English language websites with products trading in US dollars. We did find, however, some UK based sites in Froogle. To learn how your site can participate, go to http://froogle.google.com/froogle/merchants.html.
