Hello Rob,

        Good points. If Froogle doesn't do it, pricegrabber.com or
another major site will. The race is on....

-Ben 

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> Of Rob Kelley
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 8:57 AM
> To: nycwireless@lists.nycwireless.net
> Subject: [nycwireless] Google: Mobile Product Search, please!
> 
> >From [http://sidewayzen.com ]:
> 
> Froogle ([Froogle.com ]) is Google's product search. Give it 
> a search term, and it'll return a list of stores and prices. 
> Cool, but it's not part of the [http://google.com/palm  
> |mobile Google] you can use from your PDA or smartphone. 
> Google needs to make it easy to do product comparison in the 
> store itself.
> 
> Here's the first use case at Barnes and Noble:
> 1. I see a big fat computer book. It's expensive.
> 2. I whip out my phone and go to froogle.com. It shows me a 
> simple search box and a radio button for my saved 
> filters--I've created a custom search to just do BN.com, 
> Amazon.com, and Half.com.
> 3. I enter the ISBN of the book.
> 4. Froogle gives me a simple screen showing me the prices at each.
> 5. Based on the info, I suck it up and buy the book there.
> 
> Let's get cooler...
> 
> Second use case:
> There's an out-of-print children's book called "JellyBeans 
> for Breakfast". I want to know where I can find this book for 
> my daughter.
> I whip out the phone:
> 
> 1. I go to froogle.com
> 2. I type in Jellybeans for Breakfast, then I select "based 
> on location" and enter 10011 3. Froogle shows a list of 
> stores near me that have this out-of-print book.
> 4. I click the phone number of the store and the phone calls 
> to confirm.
> 
> As far as I know, neither of these features exist now, but 
> not even the basic Froogle interface exists for mobile users. 
> Please Google, help us here!
> 
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