As a long time dealer with a daily upload of a 1000's of products in my Google feed I would have to say no. Is this an intended process on Googles part once again I would say no. But all one has to do is look at Google's product categories which they are now making mandatory for all feeds. { see http://www.google.com/support/merchants/bin/answer.py?answer=160081 } I have sent a message to Google with a statement of how poor their category selection is in the collectible section. Collectibles covers a vast amount of material and needs a good number of choices it any product search category area for customers to find them items they are looking for. Many dealers have to list items in sections where they really do not belong just to meet the new Google requirements. I have to list any vintage hand bills, company bill heads , and many other kinds of vintage ephemera and historical genealogy and documents under vintage advertisements section of the very small collectibles section of the Google product categories because there is no other place to list these items. This is the case across the collectibles area as well as other section such as books. You will notice that they have not listed a category for antiquarian or collectible books at all. Under fiction they is no listing for western fiction at all. I do understand that Google does offer Product_type but its just makes more work and is a poor design. This is just one man's opinion .
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