Google Shopper is a new mobile application for Android devices that offers a variety of different ways to search for products.
The basic feature in Google Shopper is the barcode scanner as the ShopSavvy which it retrieves the information about the scanned product. Additionally there is a function which scan the covers of books and then finds the relevant product. So this can be added as an additional component into our project beside the barcode scanning.
Google provides the ability of searching by voice. It seeks a product according to the voice taken by the user using the internet. That feature makes the difference between the Google Shopper and the other published mobile applications related to shopping. Honestly, it would be great if it will be added to our application…
After a search of a product a list of items is presented for the specific item from various sites. Therefore, the item along with their price is being showed per stored shop in order to find the best price. Actually this feature belongs to the main requirements of our project and should be included.
The history of the search item can be saved and each user is able to give stars to their favorites. Obviously that will really assist the users to find all their relative products and handle them in the future.
Moreover, Google Shopper represents the nearby local stores which have the specific item and then via Google Maps there are directions how to get there. That specification will be helpful in our case because it will be a assistive way for the interactive users to get all the required information about the item.
Lastly, the social component that comes out from that application is sharing of all the resulted information with the relevant link to GMail, Facebook, Instant Messaging etc.. I think that integration will improve the social aspect of our implementation.