Google's New Shopping Features Can Help You Snag Good Deals (theverge.com) 12
Google's rolling out a handful of new shopping features that should make it easier to find good deals directly from search. When you search for a product, Google will now surface results with coupon codes that you can copy and paste during checkout. From a report: Any products with a coupon available will have a new "Special Offer" badge in the top-left corner of their thumbnail. Google previously only labeled products when they were on sale or when their price dropped, but this new badge makes it more obvious when coupons are available. The search giant's launching this feature on desktop and mobile within the "coming weeks."
In addition to adding clippable coupons to Google search, Google's introducing a way to compare deals side by side on mobile starting later this month. Instead of showing you a mishmash of products when you search for an item, it'll start grouping any products on sale in a "deals" category that you can expand and browse directly in your search results. It's also bringing price insights, which Google already offers in its Shopping tab, to search. This means you'll start seeing relevant information about a product's price history, such as when it was at its lowest and where, when browsing through results.
In addition to adding clippable coupons to Google search, Google's introducing a way to compare deals side by side on mobile starting later this month. Instead of showing you a mishmash of products when you search for an item, it'll start grouping any products on sale in a "deals" category that you can expand and browse directly in your search results. It's also bringing price insights, which Google already offers in its Shopping tab, to search. This means you'll start seeing relevant information about a product's price history, such as when it was at its lowest and where, when browsing through results.
Google shopping (Score:4, Informative)
Returns results that are about as accurate as Amazon. As in vaguely related to what you're looking for. God help you if you search by part number because you'll get better results from /dev/urandom
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Every time I've tried Google it never found any good offers, and I always ended up finding a better deal on another site. Maybe it's got better, but uBlock tens to remove all Google Shopping results so I probably won't notice.
Cue the Abuse! (Score:3)
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Yep. I worked in a back office at a retail company at one point in my life and the RRP was always set retrospectively. You calculate what you want to make first, then start with production and shipping costs, add your markup and then multiply price by at least a factor of 2 to work out RRP so that even if you apply a very "generous" 50% discount, you still make money.
Alt Headline (Score:2)
Google partners with firms that supply coupons in order to better track shopping actions
Alt Headline 2 (Score:2)
Google partners with Slashdot to promote their new feature.
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It's the same thing with the digital coupons grocery stores have pushed on people. More data to suck up and sell. It's also the reason why you see fewer and fewer paper coupons any more. Tracking what you do is now the name of the game.
Google is forgetting the first half of shopping (Score:2)
The first half of shopping is finding the correct item. Price and delivery are the second half. Giving me prices on other "similar" items is useless (unless yo.
my reply here is an off-topic test. Please ignore (Score:2)
(yro.slashdot.org is demanding that I enable javascript to reply. This reply is an off-topic test to see if that's true here as well. Please ignore it if it successfully posts. Sorry 'bout that.)
How on earth is this tech. news? (Score:2)
Marketing news maybe, but really just simple advertising. How did this get here with 8 negative comments out of the 11 originally posted in Firehose?