Google shopping
| Google shopping | |
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| google.de/shopping | |
| motto | "Find products online" |
| description | Search engine |
| Registration | Google account optional |
| languages | German and others |
| owner | Google LLC ( more ) |
| Published | December 12, 2002 |
| status | active |
Google Shopping (formerly Google Product Search , Froogle ) is a search engine for products by the US company Google . In June 2017, the European Commission imposed a record fine of 2.42 billion euros on the service because its own shopping results were unfairly prioritized in Google search .
history
Froogle has existed in the United States and Great Britain since December 2002, and in the beta phase in Germany since 2008. In April 2007, the Froogle search service was renamed Google Product Search and is now called Google Shopping .
- Former logos
Froogle logo
"Google Product Search"
functionality
Using Google Shopping is free for buyers; It is funded by Google Ads as well as payments from sellers for clicks on their products. Originally the offer was also free for sellers, but became chargeable on February 13, 2013.
Retailers can enter their products manually or automatically using tools for Product Listing Ads (PLA). In the past, the data stock of Google Shopping also consisted of automatically searched websites, similar to the data stock of Google .
The offer is not an internet shop, it only offers search and comparison functions as well as links to the product pages of other internet shops.
conditions
To integrate products into Google Shopping, a Google Ads account, which is linked to the Merchant Center account, is required.
countries
Google Shopping is currently available in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Norway, Poland, New Zealand, Netherlands, Russia, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Great Britain and the USA.
In addition, the following countries are in the beta phase (status 10/2019): Algeria, Angola, Egypt, Ethiopia, Bahrain, Bangladesh, Costa Rica, Côte d'Ivoire, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Georgia, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Jordan, Cambodia, Cameroon, Kazakhstan, Kenya, Kuwait, Madagascar, Mauritius, Morocco, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nepal, Nicaragua, Nigeria, Oman, Pakistan, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, Romania, Zambia, Saudi Arabia , Senegal, Zimbabwe, Slovakia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda, Hungary, Uruguay, Uzbekistan, Venezuela and Belarus.
Web links
- Official website
- Google for Retail (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Antitrust: Commission fines Google € 2.42 billion for abusing dominance as search engine by giving illegal advantage to own comparison shopping service
- ↑ Froogle-Google for product search. heise.de , December 12, 2002, accessed on July 28, 2017 .
- ↑ Name change: Froogle becomes Google . In: Spiegel Online . April 19, 2007 ( spiegel.de [accessed February 20, 2018]).
- ↑ Tanja Gabler: No more free. In: internetworld.de. January 5, 2013, accessed July 25, 2016 .
- ↑ Google: The Google Merchant Center. Retrieved January 2, 2017 .
- ↑ Amanda West-Bookwalter: The Total Guide To Product Listing Ads. In: ppchero.com. April 2, 2013, accessed July 25, 2016 .
- ↑ AVAILABILITY BY COUNTRY - Connect with shoppers in 30+ countries. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .
- ↑ Sales countries in the beta program. Retrieved October 21, 2019 .