Comments on: Froogle Dumped For Hot New Girlfriend

By: Introduction to froogle - Global Point Forum

Introduction to froogle - Global Point Forum — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:34:37 +0000

[...] the name Froogle as a Google brand. It was launched in 2002, never really went anywhere, and was unceremoniously dumped from the Google home page last year in favor of video search. Traffic to the site fell [...]

By: Google Pushes YouTube As An “Alternative” Way To Search for Video

Google Pushes YouTube As An “Alternative” Way To Search for Video — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 18:34:58 +0000

[...] options on Google. It was right on the homepage, third after Web and Images. Then it was nearly Froogled—bannished to the bottom of the “more” list. Now YouTube creeps onto that list. Google [...]

By: Goodbye Froogle

Goodbye Froogle — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 10:30:09 +0000

By: www.GraemeJarry.com » Blog Archive » Google Search

www.GraemeJarry.com » Blog Archive » Google Search — Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:21:38 +0000

[...] Remember when Google demoted Froogle from the top tier of the front page and replaced it with a link to Google Video? Traffic to the video site went way up. The underloved Google Blog Search is likely to see substantial growth as well - it turned one year old in mid-September and this could be its coming of age. [...]

By: The Underachiever Life » Blogs Just Got Even More Important » Blog Archive

Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:36:16 +0000

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Google Blog Search、Googleニュースにリンクされる

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Google Blog Search、Googleニュースにリンクされる — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 16:46:55 +0000

[...] Google がFroogle をトップから下ろしてその代わりに Google Videoを昇格させたときのことを覚えてるだろうか? ビデオサイトへのトラフィックはずっと上昇した。不遇だった Google Blog Search にも似たようなことが起きて、実質的なトラフィックの増加をもたらすだろう。このサービスは9月中旬でちょうど誕生以来１年を迎えたところだが、いよいよ、Blog Search の時代がやってくるかもしれない。 [...]

By: Chiangmai2HandBloging » Blog Archive » Google Links Blog Search to Google News

Mon, 23 Oct 2006 08:03:55 +0000

[...] Some time over the weekend Google put links to Google Blog Search on the front page of Google News and at the end of each news search results page. This minor change is just the kind of integration of services the company has said it was going to focus on; something Sergey Brin might call a feature not a product. It’s liable to increase the market size for the whole blogosphere, though not as much as it could have if the link had been added to even the second tier list of services on the front page of Google. I think Google Blog Search is a very good service and I’m glad that more people will now be using it.Remember when Google demoted Froogle from the top tier of the front page and replaced it with a link to Google Video? Traffic to the video site went way up. The underloved Google Blog Search is likely to see substantial growth as well - it turned one year old in mid-September and this could be its coming of age. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Links Blog Search to Google News

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Google Links Blog Search to Google News — Mon, 23 Oct 2006 05:14:39 +0000

[...] Remember when Google demoted Froogle from the top tier of the front page and replaced it with a link to Google Video? Traffic to the video site went way up. The underloved Google Blog search is likely to see substantial growth as well - it turned one year old in mid-September and this could be its coming of age. [...]

By: Show 08-20-06: New eBay Trojan Virus, Backseat Froogle, Cell Phone Putsch, MySpace Networks, Fed-Up Store Owner, Yahoo Answers vs. Google Answers, U.S.Marshall’s Service Auctions, Shopping Carts, Roboform, eBay RSS Feeds : E-Auction-Air - eBay,e-Com

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 07:06:47 +0000

[...] Froogle Gets Demoted - Shopping comparison service takes a back seat to Video search. [...]

By: » Blog Archive » Chicks Advised to Start Own Product Review Sites.

» Blog Archive » Chicks Advised to Start Own Product Review Sites. — Thu, 07 Sep 2006 10:08:37 +0000

[...] Anyone who went to the most recent Women 2.0 conference realizes there aren’t a lot of women in Web 2.0. However, a few have started their own sites designed for surfers sans a y chromosome. The most recent addition is Chick Advisor, the Toronto based start-up led by Miss Chickie (Ali). Chick Advisor has been letting “chicks” report on products and services (beauty, shopping, restaurants, health, fitness, and deals) since September 2nd. From the start, one of the neatest features is the floating tag cloud that greets readers on the front page. Users can grab on to a term that floats by and click through to related reviews in that area. Reviews are tightly categorized by predefined dropdown menus and provide a five star rating for lust factor, staying power, and price along with the usual narrative. The breadth of topics and structure really set it apart from Angie Chang’s potentially competing site The Mint Pages. The Mint Pages focuses purely on beauty products, allowing quick user reviews of products. However, the site relies heavily on open ended user descriptions of product categories that makes it harder clearly display related products. Chick Advisor allows you to put your review in a pre-defined category and tag it. I also like the finer grained review of Chick Advisor, which looks at three factors that it averages into in overall rating. However, both sites only come close to the end goal of these site, buying new and useful products. Chick advisor has a URL field in its reviews and The Mint Pages certainly allows for a link the narrative, but a mashup with a service like the recently neglected Froogle, or mySimon, could do wonders in harnessing the momentum of these reviews and turn them into commissions for each of these sites. All-in-all, it’s a smart move to start catering to women on the web and look forward to seeing more sites and entrepreneurs. I’ve hopped on the band-wagon and even added my own product review… [...]

By: TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Windows Live ビデオ検索を試行中

TechCrunch Japanese アーカイブ » Windows Live ビデオ検索を試行中 — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 01:53:47 +0000

[...] Windows Live.comがベータ版検索サービス,で試行している新サービスが面白い。特にビデオ検索。まだメインメージには載っていないがサイト内のbeta.search.live.com（betaのロゴがついてないのが皮肉）セクションにある。ビデオ検索は今まさにホット、Googleは２週間前にトップページでビデオ検索を売り込んでいたし（記事）、AOLの新しいビデオサイトの検索機能は強力、さらにはスタートアップのPixsyがつい最近ビデオ検索に絞ってこの世界に飛び込んできたところ（記事）。Windows Liveが目指すワンストップのスタートページは、ビデオ検索なしにはあり得ない。Windows Liveのビデオ検索のインデックス規模はGoogleやAOLのビデオ検索と同程度のようだ。（検索結果の数ではYahoo!ビデオ検索には誰もかなわないが）　検索結果のページは今のところとてもシンプルで、サムネイル、タイトル、上映時間、あらすじの書かれた簡潔なボックスがタテ1列に表示される。隅にあるドロップダウン・メニューでファイルタイプと追加情報を見ることもできる。 [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Windows Live testing video search

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » Windows Live testing video search — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 22:22:55 +0000

[...] Windows Live.com is working on some interesting new features in their beta search service, most notably video search. It’s not on the front page yet, but on the section of the site ironically missing the word beta on its logo: beta.search.live.com. Video search is hot right now: Google gave its video search a promotion two weeks ago, AOL’s new video site is big on search and startup Pixsy is making a splash by targeting this vertical explicitly. Windows Live is aiming to be a full service start page experience for users and wouldn’t have been complete without this one. [...]

By: Sharp Skirts » Blog Archive » Geeks Ahoy: Catalogs, Anti-Semitic Viruses, and Froogle

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:51:41 +0000

[...] –Google has kicked Froogle off its home page, which can’t bode well for the shopping search. I say go for it; Froogle is clunky, ugly, and directs me to unscrupulous retailers. Yes, I will keep hinting at the fact I’ve been had in a shopping transaction until they refund my money. At which time I’ll write about it. Bastards. [...]

By: Matthew Lee

Matthew Lee — Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:14:30 +0000

This is good news for companies like Shopzilla.com, whose business it is to organize and search product listings through the internet. As they get more traffic, they’ll also be sending more money to google through paid advertisements.

I have to wonder though, is google planning closer integration with product search into their main search engine?

By: Hoopskier

Hoopskier — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 06:06:11 +0000

It would be interesting to see how much less the Google Video “spike” would have been, if the red “new” label hadn’t been next to the link. Without that red text, most people wouldn’t even notice that the links had changed.

I won’t miss Froogle, but I do miss the convenient Groups link. As a developer I use Google to search newsgroups all the time, and find that extra “More” click mighty inconvenient.

By: Danny Sullivan

Danny Sullivan — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:56:01 +0000

> If they had changed the link text from “Froogle” to “Shopping” I bet the hit count would spike too. Who the hell wants to click on something named Froogle.

> Looking at the graph, it appears that the traffic on Froogle follows a weekly pattern, with much more traffic on week-ends. The “plunge” can be observed every Monday on that graph. So the only thing that proves is that actually things haven’t changed that much for Froogle…

Exactly. Froogle’s showing the same pattern as before, suggesting no one really clicked on that link from the home page. That’s not a surprise given that many have no idea what Froogle meant and more important, most people don’t even know what those links do for anything. And the Google Video “spike” proves this. What — it lept from being 0.25 percent of visits to about 0.6 percent. Wow, how dramatic. That’s practically no one going to it, despite being featured on the home page.

By: Mer om Google Video på hjemmesiden @ teknotum

Mer om Google Video på hjemmesiden @ teknotum — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 08:19:42 +0000

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By: john

john — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 03:19:26 +0000

When I used to shop around for a technology stuff, I would use pricewatch or cnet to find the best price on something. The last time I did this was four years ago. Now I just go to Amazon, Newegg, or eBay where I already have accounts and peace of mind that I’m making a secure/reliable purchase. Search engines are great for people who don’t know where to start looking for something, but for people like me who are somewhat experienced on-line shoppers, the hassle of starting a potentially tenuous relationship with an on-line retailer just isn’t worth saving a few bucks.

So yeah, I think Froogle has kind of missed the boat. It probably would’ve blown pricewatch away, but that was so long ago. Google video is much more current, and the deliverable is much more immediate.

By: sean

sean — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 21:29:00 +0000

The problem with froogle is the name, a really lame attempt at leveraging the google brand. If it was called “Products” or “Shopping” it would be useful for users who are searching for something to buy. I would say 99% of Google users don’t know what froogle means.

By: ¿Que miras? » Archivo del weblog » Google Video vs. Youtube

¿Que miras? » Archivo del weblog » Google Video vs. Youtube — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 17:50:58 +0000

[...] Google esta trabajando en ello y incluso ha llegado a pagar a los usuarios que suban vídeos, también han habilitado una nueva sección de vídeos porno, al estilo de pornotube. Y al parecer la estrategia les esta funcionando si vemos la estadística, se puede ver que a sufrido un crecimiento bastante considerable ultimaménte. [...]

By: How To See the New Google Video Interface at backwhack - tech news web 2.0 style

How To See the New Google Video Interface at backwhack - tech news web 2.0 style — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:36:50 +0000

[...] We mentioned that Google is testing out a new interface for watching videos in a post yesterday. The person who seems to have originally found this, Razvan Antonescu, emailed me with a tip on how to see the new interface for yourself. Google Blogoscoped also wrote about this. [...]

By: Techcrunch » Blog Archive » How To See the New Google Video Interface

Techcrunch » Blog Archive » How To See the New Google Video Interface — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 06:24:10 +0000

By: joy

joy — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 17:36:13 +0000

I think this move is related to the YouTube phenomenon and also the fact that most product searches start at the search engine and not necessarily at a supposed shopping search engine.

Two points to consider:
1)Froogle listings are still showing up at the top of SERPS. Rice Cooker, Riedel O, and half carat diamond ring. (I have expensive tastes.) I don’t know if this matters, but I was logged into Google when I saw these results.

2)If you’re a retailer and you are listed in Froogle, then you will see referrers from Froogle, as long as your price point is a)reasonable and b)reasonably low. In my experience, despite the Froogle listings, I still have seen many, many more referrers from Google’s natural search than Froogle. As any online retailer knows, competing on price point alone is a bitch.

3)Natural search still rules product referrers. Wasn’t Battelle who said that 60% of all e-commerce transactions start at the search engine?

Also, pertaining to Google products in trouble, is it just me or am I just not seeing result for products in Google Base in Google SERPS?

By: Dillon Thomas

Dillon Thomas — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 15:10:33 +0000

Correct me if Im wrong but a few weeks ago I was able to comment on some Google videos… They have fallen behind Youtube but you just can’t beat “unlimited upload filesize”
Froogle….never really used it.

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 11:21:33 +0000

Looking at the graph, it appears that the traffic on Froogle follows a weekly pattern, with much more traffic on week-ends. The “plunge” can be observed every Monday on that graph.
So the only thing that proves is that actually things haven’t changed that much for Froogle…