29 Mar
2004
29 Mar
'04
5:43 a.m.
Its just starting to put me off, if you search for
any
specific retail item, you get tons of hits from
companies claiming to have the specific item you're
looking for. But when you click on the link it takes
you to the home page of some retailer, you dig through
all the sub catagories to find what you want and they
either don't carry it or are out of stock.
Actually, that's less offensive to me (at least the "out of stock" part of
the issue--how would Google know?) than the sites that seem to make a
business out of indexing eBay auctions, so when you click on the Google
listing expecting to find a retailer, you get blasted to a site that then
forwards you into eBay for a used/garbage item, or worse, a bunch of
irrelevant items. :-/
But then, if you're looking for a retailer, have you tried Froogle? This is
driven by feeds from the listing merchants, and my sense is that it's a good
bit more current than the generic index for stock level and
availability. --Patrick