Froogle discontinued

Here is the message that I got today.

Hello,

Good news - the content of your bulk upload has been approved. However, we noticed that there were a few changes you could make to help users find your items:

- Using Froogle attributes (fields)

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Using Froogle attributes (fields): We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the old Froogle product feed format. For example, you've included "product_url" as an attribute name, although this attribute is named "link" in the Google Base format. Please convert your product feed to the new Google Base format by changing the attributes names in your header line:

How can this be fixed?

Meebsy

Early Impact
Thanks for doing this.

One comment and a suggestion:
1. The files are hardcoded for productcart/*. They should use whatever the site folder is.
2. The output would be more usable in xls format IMO.

Nonetheless - thank you for doing this promptly

I received this reply from my first google upload from productcart data.

Good news - the content of your bulk upload has been approved to appear on Google Base. We'd like to take this opportunity to let you know that we've started a search refinement experiment that surfaces Google Base content on Google.com. To help users find your items, both on Google Base and through this Google.com surfacing experiment, please make the following changes to your bulk upload file:

- Using Froogle attributes (fields)

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Using Froogle attributes (fields): We noticed that your bulk upload is using attribute names specified in the old Froogle product feed format. For example, for the attribute "category" please replace this with the "label" attribute and separate your labels with commas instead of the symbol ">". Please convert your product feed to the new Google Base format by changing the attributes names in your header line:

http://base.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=40443

We can't replicate this problem. We tested both with MS Access and MS SQL. You can look at the source code: it's extremely straightforward: it loads the short and long description. It uses the short description unless it's empty, in which case it uses the long description. Please open a support ticket.

Attached is the edited file. Let us know how it goes.

• The attached file has been tested with version 2.76
• The upcoming v3 will also feature the new code
• The file needs to be unzipped and uploaded to the Control Panel folder (called "pcadmin" by default, but typically renamed on your store).

2006-06-21_013548_exportFroogle.zip