Microsoft launched Live Products at products.live.com. They have included retail products from over 100000 sellers. Similar to googl's Froogle, Live Products is a commerce based search engine/shopping comparison engine that will, hopefully, give users relevant results when looking to buy items through online. Like Froogle, Live Products does not take payment from merchants for appearing within search results.

The difference between Froogle and Live Products, however. Froogle take data from merchants via a push/pull model (merchants use a Froogle API to include information), whereas Live Products pulls the data from the main Live Search web index so Live Producst is presenting crawled results and algorithmic ranking. Merchants will be included if they are in the index without taking any additional steps.

Live Products is not as good as Froogle yet, although a big part of this may be due to the fact that Froogle, with their push model, obtain very structured data from merchants. Live Products, in contrast, structures the data directly.


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