On: Introducing Facebook Shops

[gitgud]

They might also implement object detection within photos and match things in the photo to products you could buy... on Facebook...

[londons_explore → gitgud]

Google could do this with Chrome... They already have the "right click, search google for things looking like this image".

All they'd need to do is make the UI more discoverable and make the search results include products, and they'd be $1B up on revenue...

[woodrowbarlow → londons_explore]

i don't think the "search by image" tool is doing as much computer vision as you think it is -- it seems to mostly match shapes and colors.

[AndrewKemendo → gitgud]

That is a core selling feature of Shops:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=2686633214905269