Comparing Prices with Google Product Search
If you’re looking for a pure price-comparison site, look no further than Google Product Search. This is Google’s shopping search engine, a direct competitor of all the other price-comparison sites on the Web.
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Google Product Search was originally named Froogle (a Googlized play on the word frugal). Froogle became Google Product Search in April 2007.
How Google Product Search Is Different
Before we get into how Google Product Search works, it might prove beneficial to first understand how the other price-comparison sites on the Web work. That’s because Google Product Search works differently from all those competing sites.
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