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In other words, if you see a book in a store and want to know if you can get it cheaper online, you can grab your phone and point it at the barcode or cover, or while nobody's within earshot, you can speak the title into your phone. Google Shopper will attempt to find the correct book and hook you up with the prices at various web retailers... presumably emphasizing those that use Google Checkout for payment.
The search results pages don't just have prices though. You also get reviews, item specifications, and much of the other image available at Google Product Search.
Google isn't the first company to put out a product that offers this kind of quick, scan-based shopping comparison ability. The Amazon application for Google Android also lets you search for products by scanning barcodes or snapping pictures. But that app obviously only searches Amazon.com. And it's also not quite as fast or efficient.
That's because you have to sign into Amazon, snap an actual picture, click a button confirming you want to use that image, and then see what results pop up. If the picture was out of focus or at an awkward angle you have to start over again with the Amazon app. Google Shopper continues scanning the image art or barcode until it's got a lock on the product and then automatically opens a results page. You don't have to click the camera button to actually snap a photo. Google does all the heavy lifting -- which actually makes Google Shopper a little easier to use than Google's other Android image-based search toy, Google Goggles as well.
Find products by scanning barcodes, cover art with Google Shopper for Android originally appeared on Download Squad on Fri, 19 Feb 2010 03:29:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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