Froogle Catalogs?

Google Catalogs is online once again, but has anything really changed other than the color from red to green?  They have basically taken a cookie cutter copy of Google Book Search and made it search catalogs too.  See this side by side comparison as we look for a "sweater" using both services.

Not only is it similar to Google Book Search, a speculative link can be drawn to Froogle -- a service that gives online and local merchants the ability to upload (and make searchable) their product lists.  Integrating Catalogs and Froogle seems like a natural progression.

With all the valuable information stored in catalogs, why wouldn't Google link them with Froogle?  It's a shame that the majority of mail order companies cannot make use of Froogle, when doing so could help both shoppers and merchants get what they are looking for.

On a product compatibility level it definitely makes sense, but now even the colors are right — both green.