A question about Google shopping/product search?

[kedo]

I've just realised that although my items are showing up well on Google Product search (in the U.K.) they're not showing up when I search on Google.com (vice versa for eBid sellers in North America). Is there any way around this as I'd like all my items to be visible to the U.S./Canada. I've always done a lot of trade there.

Is this a known problem/limitation? Are there plans to deal with it? I can see that it's not unique to eBid as no U.S. based alt site listings are showing up when I search from the U.K. I just wondered as it seems like an opportunity to increase sales

[banrigh]

It seems to be a Google issue from what I see. Not sure what the problem is.

[Gothicina]

I've just realised that although my items are showing up well on Google Product search (in the U.K.) they're not showing up when I search on Google.com (vice versa for eBid sellers in North America). Is there any way around this as I'd like all my items to be visible to the U.S./Canada. I've always done a lot of trade there.

Is this a known problem/limitation? Are there plans to deal with it? I can see that it's not unique to eBid as no U.S. based alt site listings are showing up when I search from the U.K. I just wondered as it seems like an opportunity to increase sales

I don't think the UK eBid listings have ever been uploaded to the dot com site, or the US ones to the dot co dot uk site.
As far as I know the only way around it is to upload them yourself, but they'll need to be priced in the currency of the site.

[astral276]

Google requirements are that items for Google Products must be listed in the currency and language of the target country and be shippable throughout that country. The only countries Google Products serve are the UK, US and Germany.

Theoretically you could manage the upload yourself and create two feeds - one for the UK and one for the US - but it is quite possible (guessing here) that Google would complain of duplicate items being listed.

[banrigh]

Google requirements are that items for Google Products must be listed in the currency and language of the target country and be shippable throughout that country. The only countries Google Products serve are the UK, US and Germany.

Theoretically you could manage the upload yourself and create two feeds - one for the UK and one for the US - but it is quite possible (guessing here) that Google would complain of duplicate items being listed.

Google does complain and will delete them. I tried that once and if the feeds come from the same store, website, etc., only the newest data feed will stay the other feeds prior will be taken off.

[kedo]

Oh, I see, I was wondering if this was a Google limitation.