{"id":339124,"date":"2010-02-18T23:50:14","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5475292"},"modified":"2010-02-18T23:50:14","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T04:50:14","slug":"google-shopper-visual-search-app-officially-confuses-me-wtf-is-google-doing-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/339124","title":{"rendered":"Google Shopper Visual Search App Officially Confuses Me: WTF Is Google Doing? [Google]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- videoId: du_G_xJw8WA --><script type=\"text\/javascript\">newVideoPlayer( {\"type\":\"video\",\"player\":\"http:\\\/\\\/www.youtube.com\\\/v\\\/du_G_xJw8WA&hl=en&fs=1&fmt=22\",\"customParams\":[],\"width\":500,\"height\":412,\"ratio\":0.824,\"flashData\":\"\",\"embedName\":null,\"objectId\":null,\"noEmbed\":false,\"source\":\"youtube\"} );<\/script><!-- \/videoId: du_G_xJw8WA -->  I don&#8217;t understand <a href=\"http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/shopping-smarter-with-google-shopper.html\">Google Shopper<\/a>. Not because the function&mdash;searching for books, CDs, DVDs and more by using the cover art or barcode&mdash;is confusing. But because they already have a visual search app built into new Android phones, <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/5420894\/google-goggles-googles-scary-good-visual-search-app\">Goggles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Goggles does the same thing: You take a picture of something, like a book cover, and it searches for it. I get that Shopper is <em>slightly<\/em> different, with more of a direct Amazon-competitive slant, since you can bookmark products to buy them later (presumably through Google Checkout). <\/p>\n<p>But why not just integrate that into Goggles? Why the hell does this separate other product exist? Like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fakesteve.net\/2009\/07\/lets-all-take-deep-breath-and-get-some.html\">Fake Steve says<\/a>, WTF is going on over there? Android and Chrome OS? Wave and Buzz? (Okay, Buzz and Wave aren&#8217;t an <em>entirely<\/em> fair comparison, though try explaining them to a normal person.) Now Goggles and Shopper? Am I just missing something? [<a href=http:\/\/googlemobile.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/shopping-smarter-with-google-shopper.html%22>Google<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ef45394df78c78b5f639904471d6d983&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ef45394df78c78b5f639904471d6d983&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=hPdshh1OwAQ:9CWrgBfiQE0:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/hPdshh1OwAQ\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&#8217;t understand Google Shopper. Not because the function&mdash;searching for books, CDs, DVDs and more by using the cover art or barcode&mdash;is confusing. But because they already have a visual search app built into new Android phones, Goggles. Goggles does the same thing: You take a picture of something, like a book cover, and it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1718,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1718"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}