Google formarly announced Froogle in December 2002, after the site had been active in beta for some years. Froogle is a price engine website launched by Google Inc. It is currently in its development stages. Users can type product queries to return lists of vendors selling a particular product, as well as pricing information. The name Froogle is a which means thrifty, and the name of the company, Google. Froogle is of course pronounced the same as frugal.
Froogle is a price comparison service launched by Google Inc. It is currently in beta test stage. It was invented by Craig Nevill-Manning. Its interface provides an HTML form field into which a user can type product queries to return lists of vendors selling a particular product, as well as pricing information. The name Froogle is a pun on the word frugal, which means thrifty, and the name of the company, Google.
Froogle is pronounced the same as frugal. Froogle is different from most other price comparison services in that it neither charges any fees for listings, nor accepts payment for products to show up first. Also, it makes no commission on sales. Any company can submit product information and be included in the Froogle engine.
