Oh Froogle, how far you’ve come.
As they’ve been doing with products throughout their services suite, Google announced this morning that they’ve revamped the Google Product Search page for iPhone and Android.
If you’re familiar with Google Product Search from within a standard browser, you’ll feel right at home. Search for products by name or type, sort by various criteria (low to high, high to low, rating, etc), and view product details or reviews. Outside of the aesthetics, there wasn’t much that needed changing for the jump to mobile – so not much changed.
An increasingly common practice in the smartphone space is the idea of price comparison and product research by camera-based barcode scanning, something which Google has yet to really build upon in Product Search. Having begun to play up the convenience of Product Search when on the go, might they be considering adding a Product Search-powered barcode scanner to the Google iPhone App or the Android platform?
I love the awkward google help videos presented by the engineers
They’re my favorite, too. It makes each project seem way more personal, like they’re performing in front of their class or something.
I use Palm Centro, searching for products in Google Products is very tedious and frustrating. I am glad they have a mobile version for iPhone and Android. Is there a mobile site for Google Products to access this in other phones?
Not yet, as far as I know.
Thanks Greg, Google is not to be blamed, the mobile companies should adopt same standards, it must be tough for them or for anyone to create multiple versions.
I don’t know how operational it is, but the camera-bar-scan app already exists (it won the android contest if I recall well):
http://phandroid.com/2008/09/24/shop-savvy-for-android-defining-the-vision/
NICE!
Will Google build a barcode scanning app? Laws yes, it happened 18 months ago. Want to point out here the open source barcode scanner lib from Google (http://code.google.com/p/zxing, I am a dev). This provides the ‘Barcodes’ client for iPhone (though that is 2D only) and ‘Barcode Scanner’ for Android. It is also the decoder behind the excellent CompareEverywhere and ShopSavvy comparison shopping apps, also Android. BS has always linked to Google Product search and now indeed that should be nicer for end users.
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