Whats Sifter service?
“Comparison Shopping by Phone: New cell-phone software tries to connect shoppers with nearby products,” by David Talbot, MIT’s Technology Review, June 14, 2007 — http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/18894/ A new mobile-phone service promises to make shopping easier by locating stores that carry the product the user craves. Other kinds of cell-phone software help people find the nearest store of a certain type–electronics, shoe, or hardware, for example. But the new service, called Slifter, claims to be the first to find specific products within stores. It’s a great idea–in theory. In reality, Slifter generally provides long product-information lists that aren’t always useful and don’t have data from every retailer. Still, this indicates where location-aware mobile technology might be headed if the underlying data were more comprehensive and mined by better search engines. To determine a starting point for each search, Slifter uses GPS hardware embedded into cell phones; alterna
