google base

I added a feed to Google's base index. I opted to use the tab delimited format bulk upload through ftp. It was similar to other feeds and required only reworking the froogle feed. I also reused the same ftp upload script that I used for froogle. Base only accepted the first 3000 products. I'm not sure what Google is at here since our products are not classified ads, nor local to a region. It looks like eBay is automatically being sucked in. We come up prominently for our primary keywords, and we have made at least one sale, so I am not complaining. I'm not seeing any benefit to our listings on either google or froogle yet. Froogle has turned into a steady earner for us and is certainly superior to both bizrate and dealtime as well as yahoo's product feed. I'm really looking forward to Froogle getting it's act together and adding merchant and customer reviews like eBay.

I started playing with Firefox 1.5's canvas element. I've been working on an image editor that I want to utilize for the chart generator. It's really slow on my old P3 733 I have at home, but at work it runs just fine on a P4. After that, there are a bunch of other features I want to add that I have not had time for.