Shopping with Your Camera: How Visual Search Is Transforming eCommerce
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4 min readAug 13, 2019
Visual search is taking the retail world by storm.
When customers perform a visual search, they look for a product using an image instead of keywords. Shoppers can take a photo of something they want to buy (such as a pair of sneakers on a passerby) and upload it to the visual search engine of their choice — such as Google Images or Pinterest…