Google has just rolled out “Google Shopper,” a new mobile application for Android devices that offers a variety of different ways to search for products.
In addition to basic search functionality, users can search by voice, take a picture of cover art, or scan a bar code to get detailed product information and price comparison. Google introduces the application on its website and in the video below.
As Android And Me notes, the app clearly competes with the likes of ShopSavvy, who tells the publication that Google [and Amazon] “are and always have been our biggest competitors.”
Google could deal a much stronger blow to the upstart by including Shopper currently a Labs product –- with new Android handsets. We also don’t see why Google wouldn’t extend the app to other mobile platforms as well.
Google Mobile Shopping Features:
- Detailed product information
Find prices, reviews, specs, and more. Shopper is powered by Google Product Search.
- Scan the covers of books and media
Find a product by simply pointing your camera phone at the cover art of a book, CD, DVD, or video game.
- Barcode scanning
Scan the barcode of almost any product to quickly learn more about it.
- Voice search
Say the name of a product and find it easily in Shopper.
Watch quick demo of Google Shopper: