February 16, 2005

The End Is Near For Froogle Beta?

John Battelle has an interesting tidbit from Marissa Mayer of Google:

"She responded that Google was getting close to lifting beta from on a number of key products - Froogle and News were two she mentioned." source: Searchblog

According to the WSJ, Page says the beta tag means Google engineers still anticipate making significant improvements to the service. Specifically, according to this write-up at BlogCritics:

"For our engineers, it's in beta if you'd be proud to show it to your mom once you have made one or two major changes." source: BlogCritics

So... one or two major changes to Froogle in the near future?

I would be thrilled if they would do more to cluster same-product listings.

for example: U2 ipod special edition

In this example, they have done a good job of clustering the reviews. Why not do the same thing for product prices and merchant ratings?

The End Is Near For Froogle Beta?
Posted by Sean O'Rourke on February 16, 2005 at 1:03 PM
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