Google Search and Chrome Are Getting New Tools To Help Users Find Discounts (techcrunch.com) 17
Google is coming for Honey and other deal-finding tools by introducing new features on Search and Chrome to help users find discounts. From a report: The tech giant announced on Tuesday that it's adding a designated page for deals on Search, while Chrome is getting features that proactively look for discount codes and provide users with price insights. The new deals search results page on Search is designed to help users find products that are on sale from across the web in one designated spot. The page will display deals in categories like apparel, electronics, toys and beauty. You'll also find deals from different types of merchants, including big box stores, DTC brands, luxury multi-brand retailers, designer labels and local stores.
Users can scroll through deals by category and also see popular stores that have deals on what you're looking for. If you see something you're interested in, you can click on the product or visit the merchant site to learn more. Google says that if you're signed into your Google account, the page will take into account what you usually like to shop. To access the new deals page, you need to search "shop deals." Or, if you're looking for something specific, you can search for categories like "shop sneaker deals."
Users can scroll through deals by category and also see popular stores that have deals on what you're looking for. If you see something you're interested in, you can click on the product or visit the merchant site to learn more. Google says that if you're signed into your Google account, the page will take into account what you usually like to shop. To access the new deals page, you need to search "shop deals." Or, if you're looking for something specific, you can search for categories like "shop sneaker deals."
Not likely (Score:2)
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Like all those coupon code websites that try to inject themselves into handling your shopping cart. Just give me the darn code! And one that actually works, for once...
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yuuuup.
Hey google, sometimes people use your search for things other than buying garbage.
No seriously, sometimes you don't want to get inundated with ads/links to purchase for every single search -- shocking, i know.
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Go for it (Score:2)
Makes sense, another opportunity to sell ads and "sponsored listings" to a captive audience. I'm all for it, since it will hopefully push more people into using Firefox or non-Google Chromium distributions.
Also, isn't this a feature of Edge? Very innovative, Google.
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Open source will help us navigate around this
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This completely begs the disturbing question (Score:4, Insightful)
if you're signed into your Google account, the page will take into account what you usually like to shop
Gee, I wonder how Google knows where I usually like to shop?
Oh yeah that's right: corporate surveillance economy... People are so desensitized they don't even realize how very Orwellian this simple sentence is.
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Can't usually find EXACTLY what I typed in without going through pages of peripherally related items.
But they can identify exactly where I've shopped before.
Yeah.
We can all be sure (Score:1)
We can all be sure, that like everything from Google it will be half arsed and as a result won't capture the market share they were hoping for so they will dump it.
Finding discounts is exactly what I want... (Score:2)
...said no Google user ever. Me: what the f... does this error mean? Google: we don't know either, but get BeStLogAnalyzer3000 for 15% off! Even my freakin' BANK is pushing (and I mean _pushing_) discount coupons when I log into their site to get a balance.
Google Shopping was always a joke (Score:2)
in my country at least.
Never the best price at stores you've never heard of.
Why don't they remove Google Shopping form the search results all together?
I would rather pay regular price to retain privacy (Score:2)
The death of internet search (Score:3)
Google is steadily destroying what used to be a viable tool and replacing it with their own version of The Shopping Channel. Part of another comment I posted here recently bears repeating: "They have no concept of - in fact are incapable of conceiving of - queries which have any purpose other than finding companies or products."
If your entire worldview is defined and constrained by advertising, then everything - and everyone - looks like a product or a service to be sold. Nice to know we're all utterly fungible in the eyes of Google.
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It's worse than that.
For example yesterday I searched for electric infrared heaters because I need to know dimensions and required clearances to know what to spec for bid documents for a project I'm working on (improvements to a little hot dog place). I used to be able to put in a product type like that and the first results would be manufacturer's web sites which w
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I wholeheartedly agree with everything you said. And your comments regarding manufacturers' sites - actually, company sites in general - really resonate.
This whole 'engagement' thing is the Web equivalent of gangrene. The more the 'authorities' - in this case sales wonks and clueless managers - insist on inserting themselves in every single fucking little informational transaction, the more they waste our time and chase us away. So often it seems that either the tards in management - or the tards who develo