Comments on: Froogle: what’s in a name? https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/ User Experience Design, Research & Good Old Fashioned Usability Sat, 25 Aug 2012 16:31:06 +0000 hourly 1 By: 90 Percent of Everything » Blog Archive » Google ditch the name “Froogle” in favour of “Products” https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-23979 Mon, 17 Sep 2007 16:32:25 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-23979 […] A while back I blogged about how Google was missing a trick with the name “froogle”. In short, its an in-joke that a lot of people just didn’t get (a pun combining “Google” with “frugal”), and didn’t even realise that clicking on would take them to google’s product search tool. […]

]]> By: Andy Baker https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-11 Tue, 24 Oct 2006 23:10:02 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-11 Isn’t the fault that you end are on a page that lists items that match a keyword (for instance including stuff like iPod Toilet Roll Cover) rather than items that have been marked as actually being an iPod?

Is there any way to avoid this other than having items put in categories by human beings?

]]> By: Harry Brignall https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-7 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:04:35 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-7 Another thing that bugs me about most comparison shopping sites is that if you sort the search results by price low>high, then you get loads of accessories listed. I wonder what is the best ‘non hacky’ way of designing around this problem.

]]> By: Andy Baker https://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-6 Sat, 21 Oct 2006 17:18:03 +0000 http://www.90percentofeverything.com/2006/10/21/google-misses-a-trick-with-froogle/#comment-6 Funnily enough, I never think to use Froogle. Mainly because when it launched it was US only s9 I ignored it. I didn’t notice when it started working for UK users as by that time people had stopped discussing it around the blogs. So maybe an unfortunate side-effect of doing phased roll-outs by region is that you lose the positive effect of net chatter?

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