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| Catalogs (Search and Browse Mail-Order Catalogs) |
Now you can throw out your mail-order catalogs and browse or search for their contents online, even if the company hasn't listed them on the web. Like Froogle, Catalogs doesn't sell things. Instead, use this service to browse and/or search print page catalogs. Visit catalogs.google.com. If you don't have a high speed connection, the catalog pages will load slowly.
You can click on any of the catalog listed on the Google Catalogs screen or you can enter either a catalog name or the name of an item in the search box. For example, to search for [ sun hats: ]
Google Catalogs will display its results horizontally across the page: the name and date of the catalog, a picture of the cover, a picture of the page on which your search object was found, and a snippet of the text describing the object. Clicking on any image except that of the cover will take you to the specific page chosen.
At the very top of the results window you'll see the name of the catalog, the date, the phone number and the URL of its Web page. Just below is a row of tools. Starting from the left they are:
• The current page number and the total number of page in the catalog
• A control to move one page forward
• A control to move one page backward
• A control to zoom in on the page
• A control to zoom out from the page
• A text box allowing you to jump to any page in the catalog
• A text box allowing you to enter a search term and seach this catalog, all catalogs or the entire web
For more information on Google Catalogs visit catalogs.google.com/googlecatalogs/help.html.
Exercises
These problems give you practice with shopping with Google Catalogs. For hints and answers to selected problems, see the Solutions page in the Appendix.
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![Screen shot of results from a Catalogs search for [ sun hat ].](catalogu.gif)
