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Frequently Asked Questions

1. Are there any eligibility requirements?
2. How can I send you my catalogs?
3. You're showing an older version of my catalog. How can I update it?
4. How do I change my catalog description?
5. How do I remove my catalog?

If you're a merchant, Google Catalogs helps you make your catalog accessible to online users by scanning it and hosting it online for free. It's easily browseable and fully searchable, enabling users to quickly find your products.

To add your catalog to Google Catalogs...

1. Sign up for a Google Catalogs account and give Google copies of your catalogs.
2. Use your personalized mailing code to add Google Catalogs to your distribution list.
3. Check back with us in 4-6 weeks to verify that your catalog is available

1. Are there any eligibility requirements?
   
   Google Catalogs searches standard U.S. mail-order product catalogs which have printed prices and are designed to help customers make immediate purchases. For now, we aren't including foreign catalogs, travel guides, course catalogs, manufacturers' information sheets, loose-leaf sheets/brochures and catalogs that are printed with unusually large or small dimensions, or in landscape (horizontal) format. In addition, our policy is not to host catalogs that promote illegal goods and services.
   
   
2. How can I send you my catalogs?
   
   When you sign up for a Google Catalogs account, you'll be sent a personalized mailing address. Adding this address to your catalog distribution list or mailing us a CD with the pdf files of your catalog is all you have to do to ensure that we automatically update your catalog as we receive it.
   
   
3. You're showing an older catalog. How can I update it?
   
   If the catalog we're displaying isn't current, please send us the most recent issue using the personalized mailing address you received when you signed up. If you need us to resend this address to you, please contact us at http://www.google.com/support/catalogs/bin/request.py?contact_type=general from the email address you signed up with.
   
   
4. How do I change my catalog description?
   
   To suggest changes to our description of your catalog, write to us at http://www.google.com/support/catalogs/bin/request.py?contact_type=general listing the information as it currently appears and how you'd like us to change it. Be sure to include your company name, catalog title and the issue whose description you want changed.
   
   
5. How do I remove my catalog?
   
   Please write to us at http://www.google.com/support/catalogs/bin/request.py?contact_type=general with your company name, catalog title and the issue you want remove, and we'll be happy to remove your catalog from the service.