{"id":267721,"date":"2018-07-10T10:00:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=267721"},"modified":"2018-07-10T10:01:40","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T08:01:40","slug":"snapchat-working-on-visual-search-feature-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/267721-snapchat-working-on-visual-search-feature-report.html","title":{"rendered":"Snapchat working on visual search feature &#8211; Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat is working on a search feature which allows users to identify products with their smartphone camera, <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2018\/07\/09\/snapchat-camera-search\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>TechCrunch<\/strong><\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>The visual product search would then redirect users to Amazon product listings after an object or barcode is scanned.<\/p>\n<p>Details on the functionality is hidden in Snapchat&#8217;s app code and was discovered by app researcher <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IshanAgarwal24\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Ishan Agarwal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The search feature is reportedly codenamed &#8220;Project Eagle&#8221; and could potentially open up new revenue streams for Snapchat.<\/p>\n<p>Snapchat has reportedly named the feature &#8220;Camera Search&#8221; in the latest version of its app, and the hidden code points to the ability for users to copy the URL of a product listing and share it with others via messages or Snapchat Stories.<\/p>\n<p>There is currently no information available regarding the rollout of Snapchat&#8217;s Camera Search function.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/gaming\/266341-snapchat-to-launch-its-own-gaming-platform.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Snapchat to launch its own gaming platform<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Snapchat is working on a new product search feature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":184776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[52285,52287,22637],"class_list":["post-267721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-camera-search","tag-project-eagle","tag-snapchat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267721"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267747,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267721\/revisions\/267747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}