Google Product Search Finally Useful as Mobile Service
Google announced this morning that Google Product Search is now tightly integrated with mobile search results on the iPhone and Android. The new interface should make it easier to find price comparisons and customer reviews while on the go.
I'm not a big shopper but I have struggled while standing in stores to find product reviews on my phone for tennis racquets, vacuum cleaners and power tools within recent memory. Natural search results and Amazon listings only worked so well. Unfortunately, a lot of shopping searches I tried this morning didn't have Product Search results. When they are available, they are pretty good though.
The best thing about the new inclusion of Google Product Search may be its availability in Google Voice search as well. That's handy, or hands-free as the case may be.
Google Product Search is the new name, as of two years ago, for what used to be called Froogle. That product never gained much traction, but speaking as a likely user of this new feature - I hope it continues to improve.
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Nice article. My big complaint with Google Product Search is that it doesn't do anything for non-structured products (try searching for "treadmill"), so there's no good price comparison or reviews. This basically covers most products that don't have a UPC.
Of course, Buzzillions has a very useful iphone app that has reviews and price comparison on EVERY product in its database. No voice search for us, unfortunately.
I'd love to hear your thoughts / comparison of the two?
http://blogs.buzzillions.com/buzzillions-iphone-app/
Sucks that you can only access it on android and iphone.
You can get pretty much the same thing from http://frugalytics.com - a comparison shopping app built for the mobile web.
It is interesting to see Google trying to revamp (failed) froogle efforts. It is clear that vertical search including the most popular domain of online Shopping can be done lot better than current services. Popular services today are mostly based on vendor feed submission.
At Cazoodle, we are trying a different approach. Our robots crawl product websites, and integrate the structured properties of the products. This allows us to provide truly organic product comparision. Try at http://shopping.cazoodle.com
Natural search results and Amazon listings only worked so well. Unfortunately, a lot of shopping searches I tried this morning didn't have Product Search results...
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As this information gets localized more and more... you could search for a product and find the lowest price in your area. That would be cool.
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It is interesting to see Google trying to revamp (failed) froogle efforts. It is clear that vertical search including the most popular domain of online Shopping can be done lot better than current services. Popular services today are mostly based on vendor feed submission.
At Cazoodle, we are trying a different approach. Our robots crawl product websites, and integrate the structured properties of the products. This allows us to provide truly organic product comparision.
how do you write a review of a store that came up on google product search for a specific product? i can't find a way to write a review, if it is that hard, then people won't write reviews and then the info is meaningless.
I could spend my life...
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