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Google shopping adds local inventory search to your mobile… (Boy Genius Report via TechNews AM)

Have an Android, iPhone, or webOS smartphone? Find yourself shopping at Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm todos los dias? Well, Google has got a new feature for you. Google is officially launching an updated version Google…

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Updated Google Product Search Alerts You To Items Nearby

Want to buy the latest gadget - like, right now? Well, a new version of Google's mobile Product Search will alert you if an item that you are searching for is sitting in a nearby store just waiting to be purchased. Google has teamed up with stores like Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn, and West Elm to include information about their inventory in search results. Looking for the latest point-and-shoot camera? Go to Google.com on your phone, tap "more" and then "Shopping." Do a search, and if the local Best Buy or Sears has that camera, a blue dot will appear next to the search results. Click on it and Product Search will tell you if it's in stock or has limited availability. If you have enabled "My Location" or manually specified where you are, the app will also tell you how far away the stores are from where you are standing. The offering works on the iPhone, Palm WebOS phones, and Android devices in the U.S. Google first demonstrated a preview version of this feature in December.

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Google’s Mobile Product Search Now Shows Real-Time Local Inventory

Google just announced that the mobile version of Google Product Search can now tell you if a certain product is in stock at nearby stores. Currently, Google is only working with a handful of retailers, including Best Buy, Sears, Williams-Sonoma, Pottery Barn and West Elm, but the company is actively looking for more partners. To see these results, just browse to Google.com on your mobile phone (Android, WebOS or Android), click the "more" link and then "Shopping." The local inventory will be updated in real time and is currently only available for users in the U.S. Sponsor Google obviously thinks that providing the best local results possible is the future for a large number of its services. Now that most modern mobile browsers can forward your location data to web apps, it's become even easier for Google to offer these kinds of local results and Google's initiatives around Google Maps and Place Pages show how serious the company is about local search. For now, with this small number of participating retailers, this isn't necessarily the most useful feature yet. If Google actually manages to get more businesses to use this feature (and/or to expose their inventory through an API), then Google Product Search - which has remained relatively underused - could easily establish itself as the go-to local shopping service. For more details about the mobile version of Google Product Search, have a look at this video (the introduction of Product Search starts about 19 minutes into the presentation) Discuss

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