http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/10/13/image-search-coming-to-ebay-mobile-apps-a-la-google-goggles/ Gadgets, Smartphones, Android Tablets, iPhone, iPad and all the latest tech you'd expect. Sat, 25 May 2013 04:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.mobilemag.com/2011/10/13/image-search-coming-to-ebay-mobile-apps-a-la-google-goggles/#comment-49217 Lace Llanora Fri, 14 Oct 2011 05:22:00 +0000 http://www.mobilemag.com/?p=122448#comment-49217 Image recognition is an amazing technology but like what you said - since eBay is geared towards buying and not search in general, then the probability of not getting any results is greater than Google Goggles. Although surely the number of eBay sellers will continually increase - exciting what would be the role of sellers once this is rolled out. Perhaps they should submit multi-shots of a product to be recognized by an app, and so on. Image recognition is an amazing technology but like what you said – since eBay is geared towards buying and not search in general, then the probability of not getting any results is greater than Google Goggles. Although surely the number of eBay sellers will continually increase – exciting what would be the role of sellers once this is rolled out. Perhaps they should submit multi-shots of a product to be recognized by an app, and so on.

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