

Quickly and easily browse, compare prices, and find deals across your favorite retailers. With the Google Express app, you can shop millions of items from thousands of trusted stores like Target and Costco, all in one convenient place. But Google Shopping has always been a weird product since the death of Froogle.Google Express Home Delivery Shopping Costco Target Walgreens Description Google's statement says that the primary interface for Google Shopping will now be the shopping tab on, which, again, is kind of strange for a product that isn't an indexed organic search result. For instance, a search for "Amazon Echo" will never list an result in the Shopping search results (Amazon is welcome to buy an ad, though). This can lead to woefully inadequate listings for some searches, especially for companies Google doesn't like.

Google Search does it best to find, catalog, and index the world's data, while Google Shopping doesn't go out of its way to index the web it only cares about businesses that send it data feeds. This means Google Shopping still isn't a spider-driven search engine the way Google Search is. In April 2020, Google Shopping gave up on the "paid listings only" policy and started listing anyone that signed up on the "Google Merchant Center." The Merchant Center has retailers generate and send Google a product data feed, which is used for the search results.

We’ll continue building features within the Shopping tab and other Google surfaces, including the Google app, that make it easy for people to discover and shop for the products they love. All of the functionality the app offered users is available on the Shopping tab. Within the next few weeks, we’ll no longer be supporting the Shopping app. XDA spotted a hidden closing message in the app on Thursday, and late Friday, Google confirmed to 9to5Google that the Shopping app is on the way out.
