November 07
Product Upload Service
Live Product Search is designed to surface the widest selection of available products on the web. To date, the site has featured products that we’ve identified through crawling the web and extracting product attributes (image, description, price, etc.). Of course, that’s not the only way to get product data.
Today, we are pleased to announce Product Upload, a free service for merchants interested in making their product catalog available in Live Product Search. Though a full-scale rollout of the service will happen in early 2007, we are accepting applications for a limited beta program here.
After signing up, selected beta participants will receive an invitation code and instructions on how to upload your catalog. We’ll be selecting beta participants based on a need to get a diverse variety of merchants and product types. If you’re not selected as a beta participant, we’ll certainly let you know when the program expands.
Here is a quick glance of functionality accessible through this service:
Upload you product catalog in any of the formats support, i.e. text or XML through either HTTP upload or FTP. Products can include images, description, price, and links to web addresses on your site. You can upload any number of catalogs with no specific limits. Once your catalog is successfully published and has passed the validation steps it will be searchable through Live Product Search.
You will need a Live ID (formerly Passport) to login and signup. Fill out a simple application that describes your business and optionally fill out more business details.
Keep up to date on the status of your catalogs and keep track of your products on Live Product Search.
We’re continuing to innovate with Live Product Search and look forward to showing you more innovations soon. In fact, check back next week for some additional new features.
Phanindra Kanumuri
Program Manager
Live Product Search team
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