Google To Require Retailers To Pay To Be In Google Shopping Results

gambit3 writes "In a move to squeeze more cash out of its lucrative Web-search engine, Google is converting its free product-search service into a paid one. Online retailers will now have to bid to display their products on Google's Shopping site. Currently, retailers include their products for free by providing Google with certain data about the products. Google then ranks those products, such as cameras, by popularity and price. 'We believe that having a commercial relationship with merchants will encourage them to keep their product information fresh and up to date. Higher quality data—whether it’s accurate prices, the latest offers or product availability—should mean better shopping results for users, which in turn should create higher quality traffic for merchants.'"

Comments

Re:Good while it lasted...

[geekoid]

I wonder if a clue a poster is a troll is the number of nonsense AC posts reply.

Shopping works as well as amazon, better then eBay
The yellow box at the top that has a sponsored links? yeah, that's what they are talking about.
Not the actual results.

Re:Yes indeed.

[Dishevel]

The most worthless content free posts are usually from cry baby bitches that have all their angst saved up so they can sound tough on the internet,
Maybe if your mother loved you just a little bit more you would not have ended up jacking off to /. posts till the pain becomes too much and you inevitably kill yourself.
Have a nice day.