Hello Rob, Good points. If Froogle doesn't do it, pricegrabber.com or another major site will. The race is on....
-Ben > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf > 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! > > -- > NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ > Un/Subscribe: > http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ > Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/ > -- NYCwireless - http://www.nycwireless.net/ Un/Subscribe: http://lists.nycwireless.net/mailman/listinfo/nycwireless/ Archives: http://lists.nycwireless.net/pipermail/nycwireless/