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Google Space Test Flies at Heathrow Airport

The pilot program is believed to be the first public test that will provide data on Google’s plans to establish public and free offerings of its products.

Travelers at London’s Heathrow Airport have been using a free pilot program called Google Space. Beginning last Thursday, travelers have been able to use ten laptops to try out six Google programs: Google Earth, Google Local, Google Toolbar, Froogle, Google Mobile, Google Mail, and Picasa.

Also available to the fliers, is general web surfing. This test for Google, may be a glimpse into the future.

Froogle

I have used Froogle for a long time now. Google’s definition of Froogle is

Froogle, Google’s shopping search engine, applies the power of Google’s search technology to one very specific task: locating sellers that offer the item you want to find and pointing you directly to the place where you can buy it.

I use Froogle for many reasons, but mainly I will find something that I want on ebay or somewhere else, and to compare prices I will then go to Froogle. Often times this will lead me to purchasing it through a vendor I have found on Froogle, due to lower pricing than ebay and other sites on the net.

Now Froogle is going strong into the local neighborhoods. This is where it will get exciting and we will talk about Local Froogle soon.