Guang

Shopping assistants can be of great use to anyone, regardless if they're a big shopping fan. Besides helping one find similar products that match the look of the original, such helpers can also help you shop around and save some money in the process.

Shopping helper extensions aren't nothing particularly new, but with how easy they are to install and get started with, even those who have the remotest interest in shopping can get some good use out of a tool like such. Guang is a Chrome extension that can identify products across the web based on an image and provide you with relevant results.

If you see an image of a product that is of interest to you, pressing the Search by Image button is usually enough for the extension to identify it. As it looks through the web, the extension will attempt to find the same product across different stores, but if that isn't possible, it will provide suggestions that look similar to the original article.

This can apply to all manner of products. We had originally thought that clothing articles would be the only ones supported, but as it turns out, it's also possible to look up...basically anything that can be bought. For instance, this function can be used to good effect to look up anything you can think of: as an example, finding similar furniture based on an image is very much possible.

If you see a product you're intrigued by, but are not yet ready to buy, you can bookmark it for later. You'll have to be on the store's page to do so, as the program additionally logs the price of the respective product, helping you track it within the My Wishlist interface.

Aside from that, the extension also has a snipping feature. Triggering it via the Alt+3 hotkey will allow you to highlight anything on a page, so that the tool can look it up and find relevant results.

Guang is a Chrome extension that can prove to be quite handy to a number of users. You don't have to be necessarily passionate about shopping to use this, as it can be used to good effect to find lots of stuff on the web based on an image.