Google Base is not the same with Product Search. The functionality provided by these two products is different. You should not rely on the API covering all Google Product Search features (e.g. review). But the API covers functionality that's not used in Product Search.
If you consider 1942-20.5 being equivalent to 1942-20-5, you can do a similar query to what you pass in for Product Search, and check what results you get: http://www.google.com/base/feeds/snippets?q=1942-20-5 Alex On Fri, Jul 31, 2009 at 12:30 PM, [email protected] < [email protected]> wrote: > > I am trying to do a search for products where the MPN often has to be > able to include a period. I slash all delimiters such as dashes and > brackets like I'm supposed to, but periods are not listed as > delimters. They are clearly specially handled characters though, and > if I try to do a search where an MPN, for example, equals > 1942-20.5 > > Which would look like so > [mpn:1942\-20.5] > I get no results, but according to this product page there are TONS of > results. > > http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=1942-20.5&oe=utf-8&hl=en&cid=14884259113825266322&sa=button#scoring=tp > > So clearly google has figured out a way to read their own data, but I > can't seem to get the info. My queries all work fine if they don't > have a period in the MPN, its only ones with a period that fails. > Anyone know of any tricks? I tried everything I could think of. > > > > -- Alex Dovlecel, Google Switzerland GmbH Company Identifikationsnummer: CH-020.4.028.116-1 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google Base Data API" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Base-data-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
