Talk:Google Catalogs

Observer
Hi, I will be observing your page. I think that one thing you guys might want to add is some screenshots of the Google Catalog site. I agree with the suggestion below that you might want to go in to more depth with how the relationship between retailers and Catalogs work. How does Google choose which products are featured? Is there some kind of algorithm, much like their search engine, that makes some products more featured than others? Also, I might give a bit more background on the actual design team, and how the idea for the project came about. Ral41090 (talk) 17:40, 28 September 2011 (UTC) I'll help to observe too. Nlw34 (talk) 20:16, 28 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey! I will be observing this article. It sounds like an interesting idea. I think you guys will probably have a bit of work to do in making sure that you link the other Google pages to this page. Also, I will be monitoring your progress in the next few days as to the organization of the page and am looking forward to see what you guys come up with. Good luck! --Kprincisvalle (talk) 01:00, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Lenwomp will be observing as well --Lenwomp (talk) 03:48, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Hey, I will also be observing this page. One question you might want to address in a section is the relationship between google catalogs and the actual retailers. Is there some sort of arrangement that for every purchase because of google catalogs, does the retailer pay them some sort of commission? Also, how do retailers go about have their catalog become a part of google catalogs? --kmacdonald4 (talk) 13:09, 29 September 2011

I was thinking that adding an image of the user interface for the app could add to the UX portion of the article. I believe the Wall Street Journal blog that is sited in the bibliography has a pretty good picture of the interface. Acsomeone25 (talk) 03:17, 3 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello Google Catalogs Group, I just wanted to offer a few suggestions as an observer of your article. I think that you should link all the mentioned companies (and other references in your article) to their Wiki pages. Further, I am not sure if it makes sense to talk about Google Catalog's parent (Google) in your history section, but I would at least mention briefly the start of Google and its evolution to including Google Catalogs in its platform. I think this would beef up this section and provide a bit more insight. I thought your organization and inclusion of "User Experience" was useful and I thought it added a lot to your paper. Also, I am a bit confused by your "Participating Merchants" section; can a user of Google Catalogs only buy Women's Fashion Apparel? Those are the suggestions I have as of right now. I like the information sidebar that you included, I think this is a nice addition that aids in the organization and useability of this Wiki article. Kprincisvalle (talk) 00:07, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Hello again! I just wanted to say that I really like the new additions you have. I think the organization of this article is very good and definitely provides the reader with an easy-to-use and navigable page to utilize. I also like that you took my advice to link references in the article to other Wikipedia pages; however, with this I see that there are a lot of non-existent Wikipedia pages that you linked so try removing those links and leave them as just type-face. Leading readers to empty links will be a bit confusing if these are not removed. Good job! Kprincisvalle (talk) 05:17, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

Organization of Article
Since we are building this article from scratch, we would like to model this application after how other Google applications have been edited and produced on Wikipedia. Sections will include: -http://www.uxmag.com/design/first-look-at-the-google-catalogs-user-experience MikelG2012 (talk) 22:52, 28 September 2011 (UTC)
 * History
 * Participating Merchants
 * User Experience (UX) — Preceding unsigned comment added by MikelG2012 (talk • contribs) 02:11, 29 September 2011 (UTC)
 * Available platforms (iPad)
 * Updates of versions of the application
 * Features (collages, sharing, favoriting, find nearby, searching, etc.)

This may be a helpful link to look at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FaPgVUJ9A8w Nlw34 (talk) 15:52, 29 September 2011 (UTC)