> I'm confused, Google deprioritized their site in search results, and then several years later launched their own shopping comparison tool. The first iteratio

> I'm confused, Google deprioritized their site in search results, and then several years later launched their own shopping comparison tool. The first iteration of comparison shopping on Google, then called Froogle, had launched several years prior to their site. > Created by Craig Nevill-Manning and launched in December 2002, Froogle was different from most other price comparison services in that it used Google's web crawler to index product data from the websites of vendors instead of using paid submissions. https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Shopping