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Michael writes: Continuing the trend set by the beta release of their new shopping search engine, Froogle, leading search engine Google announced today that it will rename its popular Google News offering to Noogle.

“This is just the beginning,” said Google CEO Eric E. Schmidt. “Everyone loves our name, and attaching it to our other properties will increase their brand association.” Their next planned change is for the Google Groups newsgroup archive, which will now be called Groogle. “We’re thinking of renaming the image search as Viewgle, but we’re not sure people will get that one,” said Schmidt. “We’ll also be releasing Zoogle later this year, but we’re not sure what it will be.”