Google Shopper makes its debut in the Android market

By on Feb 19, 2010 at 12:41 PM
News February 19, 2010

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Fresh out of Google Labs is yet another application that Google can add to its growing Android library and embed on future phones. This time we have Google Shopper, a shopping application that utilizes Google’s online shopping data and allows Android users to search this vast repository using text, voice, barcodes, and photo scans of book and media cover art. Once your product of interest has been identified, detailed, and priced, it can be saved to your history, added to your favorites, and shared with your friends using the obligatory social networking integration. Android owners can snag the application from the Android market for free and use it as an excuse to go to the mall and spend some hard earned cash. Though we’re not exactly sure why this wasn’t just incorporated into Google’s Goggles application — seems pretty redundant to us.

[Via Android and Me]

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  • Steve Jobs

    Everyone that’s not sucking Apple’s dick.

  • Sugar Grove

    Minority Report here we come.
    Data mining is getting more scary.
    So you pull up a retailer and all of a sudden Google takes your gps location and changes which store you should shop at based on what comp they get.
    You dont need to look far to see where they’re going with this.

  • AusFest

    Dude how are you the first one on every post? Get a fucken life.

    • Mofo

      Coz you are a lazy ass

  • David

    Android All Day
    Fuck apple

  • Mofo

    lol there are fake mofos infiltrating bgr now. I am the true mofo and for proof i will post my thoughts:

    Sprint= ghetto black customers
    flash = no sex having wanna watch porn on phone fags
    iphone = god
    apple = god

  • helebek

    Hey BGR,
    It is one more app, they are increasing the app count :) . So they can say there is an app for that :) . I wonder what will happen to iPhone’s so many apps claims when the Android market reaches a pretty close quantity of apps?

    • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

      If that happened ( and according to developers at MWC it isn’t going to anytime soon) it would be when Google starts to focus on getting every Android phone running the latest OS 2.xxxxxx. Once Google fixes the fragmention ( I know, you all say it isn’t fragmented, developers think otherwise though) the the developers will be quicker to develop Apps.

      Cheers

  • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

    Although I don’t use Android, if I were an Android user I would hope that Google first take care of the fragmention of their OS. If Google has time to make redundant pieces of software can’t they get all phones running 2.1 already? Take care of step one Google and let developers fill in the Apps for you.

    This is the sort of thing that happens when an Ad driven company buys themselves into the OS business. I remember seeing the same sort of thing happen when a Software comapny bought DOS way back when.

    Cheers

    • whoster69

      An old die-hard apple brown noser eh?

      Fragmentation? Would you like to defend Mac’s fragmentation? I didn’t think so…

  • Sugar Grove

    @helebek
    competition is good, but Apple would have to cease adding apps today for the Android apps to catch up in a couple years. I suspect they will ad a substantial amount of apps but until the phone manufacturers have a unified program that everybody gets the os version updates in close proximatity they will have issues with compatibilty.

  • Sugar Grove

    Jarrett you are way too smart to state it first

    • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

      Yeah, It amazes me that people don’t understand that this isn’t the desktop space 10-15 years ago. You can have one OS on 50 different devices as long as you don’t have a new OS every 4 months. Microsoft was able to maintain such dominance because developers could focus on the programs for long periods of time for one OS release at a 3+ year release. Now App developers are suppose to be able and keep up with a new release every 3+ months? It just isn’t realistic. Apple gives developers a year in between major builds. Whether Joe consumer likes it or not, developers appreciate it. Sure, if you are a ubber geek you want the latest build anyway you can get it. The problem is that the average consumer is 90% of the addressable market.

      Now, you can argue what platform is better for whatever reasons but in all reality the overall market will determine what platform is better. Just ask any Mac user from ’84 to now. Just because you know you have a better experience doesn’t mean the developers feel it is better for them.

      Cheers

  • Sugar Grove

    @mofo
    Tiger says get a grip and he’s not referring to golf

  • Sugar Grove

    @Jarrett
    I do recall the day in 1999 that I dropped $5000.00 on a Dell laptop and took a while to get rid of the MS buggyland that was available then. back in the day when tech support was able to english.

    • T

      Say what?

    • http://www.applebythehour.com Jarrett

      $5,000.00 for a laptop? Wow! The most I have ever spent on a computer Windows or Mac is $1500. I hope you are still getting use out of that laptop? Haha. Amazing how technology might change but we are always paying the same prices.

      Before any of you morons out there try and say NetBooks are cheap let me agree with you. They are cheap, cramp and crappy when it comes to actual use. It would be like me telling you that an iPad will be a good substitute for a MacBook, Pro or otherwise.

      $5,000.00, I have trouble even thinking about spending $2,000.00 or so on a new iMac or a Mac Pro for a little more. It isn’t going to happen no matter how long I think about it. Now, if my iMac (2004) and my MacBookPro (2009) suddenly died, I might consider a large purchase for hardware. Definately not $5,000.00 though.

      I bet Dell misses those types of frequent purchases or atleast their profits miss them.

      Cheers

      • Sugar Grove

        @Jarrett
        It was a business write off so even though the intial cost sucked
        I was able to recoup some of the costs and short of web surfing and basic apps it doesnt see much use.
        The applications have grown so large that it cant keep up with the background programs running.

      • Doug

        umm, did you read his post? He said he spent it in 1999. Laptops were a HELL of a lot more expensive in 1999, and there was no such thing as a netbook.

      • T

        They weren’t $5,000.00 expensive. 2 grand maybe. 5 grand and you’d better hope that thing doubles as a hover board for transportation. Alienware top-of-the-line laptops rarely approached 5 grand, and those were considerably more expensive than Dells before they were bought out by Dell.

      • Sugar Grove

        Will acknowledge my recollection of the exact price is foggy but they started out @$2800.00 for the base model
        and ram was $1.25 per MB and the max you could get was 384mb
        seems absolutely insane today but then it was a screamer for Win 98 and actually reformated to load win 2000
        as crummy as it was you cannot load xp too large and os
        as the story goes if I’d only knew then..

  • B-Rose

    Can someone explain the difference between this and Goggles? Isn’t this exactly what Goggles does, or amI confused? Thanks.

    • T

      I think Goggles is really meant to be a query search, which you may enter into Google itself as “WTF is this?” Shopper scans things on the fly and links you to websites.

      I dunno if Goggles does the latter quite like this does.

    • webby

      Try a Google search, “What is the difference between Google Goggles and Google Shopper?”

      Google prolly doesn’t even know the answer to that one, LOL.

    • Mr. Anderson

      thank you for staying on topic

    • radio2

      This works on Android 1.5 while Google Goggles requires at minimum Android 1.6.

  • Frogford Ryder

    I kinda like this, and I remain interested in moving from WinMo to Android. The 2 holdbacks are direct (not passing through Google’s servers) outlook contact/calendar synch and Pocket Quicken. I know I won’t get the second … but has the first been developed yet?

  • http://www.nooksurfer.com NookSurfer

    Pretty interesting application. It seems like it works better than some of the ones that Apple offers. This one seems like it does more than just scan the bar code.

  • Que???

    Straight from Goggles department of redundancy department…

    Why not try to find a better blend of the following existing products instead of creating a whole new product:

    Google Goggles+Shop
    Android+Chrome OS
    Google Wave+Buzz

    Must be nice to have money eh Google???

  • W

    Uh…no thanks, I can’t even trust them with a simple e-mail address.

  • Philip

    Perhaps shopper is separate from goggles because goggles is focused in getting information about whatever you are trying to take a picture of, and shopper is specifically designed for shopping. Even so, I think this could be a check box simply designed into goggles.

  • SOUTHERN MISS ELITE

    there should be a report user feature on here..

  • yourmom goes to college

    Wow, do you think google isn’t brewing up anything? Do you think they would set themselves up for failure? Its a baby growing into a monster, I say in less than a year android will dominate and poor g1 users will have to buy a new phone to keep up with todays hardware. Stop crying about OS differences, 2.x is and will be standard untill hardware permits otherwise. Where do I put the flux capacitator doc?

  • mikehill33

    works pretty goood, and better than amazon shopper.

  • Reena

    Runs great on my Droid. I noticed an interesting side effect with this – I went into the settings and turned off the “beep” that plays when it finds the item you’re scanning. Then I opened ShopSavvy after that and discovered that it disabled the beep for that too. At first I thought that maybe it just muted the notifications sounds, but they’re still at the same level they were before. Strange.

    Google on Money? Hopefully this won’t anger paypal: http://is.gd/8OdNz

  • Rickybobby

    I do apreciate Googles hard work. However, all the releases seem to be a bit ovrwelming. So I agree with you.

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