Internet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google’s Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search — not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive. “Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users find things to buy over the years, but the name caused confusion for some because it doesn’t clearly describe what the product does,” wrote Marissa Mayer, Google vice president for search & user experience, and Jeff Bartelma, product manager for Google Product Search, on the company’s official blog.
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Google Dumps the ‘F’ Name
Posted by: Katherine Noyes April 19, 2007 01:21 PMInternet shoppers who appreciate a good pun will be sorry to note the passing of Google’s Froogle product search service, which the company said Wednesday it had decided to rename. In its place we now have Google Product Search — not nearly as fun a moniker, but infinitely more descriptive. “Froogle offers a lot of great functionality and has helped many users find things to buy over the years, but the name caused confusion for some because it doesn’t clearly describe what the product does,” wrote Marissa Mayer, Google vice president for search & user experience, and Jeff Bartelma, product manager for Google Product Search, on the company’s official blog.