Summary

This chapter taught you how to search for and find items within a vendor catalog on the Google Catalog site. You can find catalogs by browsing or searching for catalogs using the familiar Google search box. Once you find a catalog, you can browse through it page by page or do keyword searches through the catalog itself, taking you right to the page that displays the items you’re interested in purchasing or simply interested in knowing more about.

If you are a vendor or merchant, Google lets you put your catalog online for free. If you meet the requirements you can use the power of Google to display your catalog online. Not only is this useful for small- to medium-sized businesses, but for larger companies as well. People use Google to find things, and having people find your product and buy it is probably why you are in business.

Several times in this chapter, we mention Froogle as a perfect companion to the Google Catalogs. Learn more about shopping with Froogle in the next chapter and see that it’s true that Google Catalogs is a great companion to Froogle.