Comments on: Google Shopper Android Application Launches

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:46:30 +0000

This is awesome, but unfortunately aimed at US Consumers. When will Google release the UK version of Shopper, with UK prices?

I’ll be watching this space.

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By: NookSurfer

NookSurfer — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 18:59:35 +0000

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.

By: txasbubba

txasbubba — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:30:45 +0000

I’m intrigued by how Google resolves the multiple inboxes. For reasons you stated, I think they need to keep them separate. But they sort have a couple of approaches:

+ email notices (like with Google Voice messages)
+ Easy access to each inbox (as with the Buzz on the left menu within Gmail)

But I think there’s a difference between Shopper and Goggles: While they use overlapping tech, one leads to pricing info while the other is a web search. From my computer, often that distinction is negligible. But phones tend to have very discreet, focused apps to minimize navigation and filtering.

By: mi_canuck

mi_canuck — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:19:40 +0000

i like the fact that the scanner “beam” is automatic and you can see it swipe… works quite well! awesome app by google yet again! (sky map is still the coolest! ;)

By: mendy

mendy — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:42:41 +0000

was curious about the difference between results from goggles and shopper so did a quick experiment using a pic of the eiffel tower:

-goggles brought it up right away, directing me to search results for the landmark

-shopper took a while, then brought me to “jimmy dunn – sheetrockin’ the eiffel tower” cd.

google should really just streamline the 2 apps. very cool, either way though.

By: anon

anon — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 08:43:24 +0000

So I like it and I’ll download it even if it sort of overlaps with Savvy Shopper and similar barcode shoppers.

However, I just finished watching some clips of Network and Soylent Green on Google’s YouTube, and that last little part, with the 3D CGI Slickbacked Stereotyped Hipster Software Engineer telling us all in that syntho robot voice that it is now available and we must now download it to our Google Nexus with the subliminal audio cheering and video frames inserted of crowds in stadiums going wild, ….

That was kind of creepy.

By: RM

RM — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 07:56:54 +0000

I duplicated your searches and got the same results for “Nexus 1″, however “Wizard of Oz” gave me a million results.

One thing I noticed in your video was that your voice captures were generally ‘clipped’, i.e. you appeared to be talking too loudly for the phone to process it. Not sure if that was part of the problem.

Try “Wizard of Oz” again.