As Apple’s intelligent voice assistant grows in popularity amongst existing (and future potential) iOS users, business owners around the world are looking to grab a piece of the action. One particular retailer which has managed to do that this week is Best Buy, who, in a deal with Wolfram Alpha, has given access to its entire product catalog for use with Siri.
Highlighted by TUAW and detailed on the firm’s official blog, Wolfram Alpha this week announced the addition of the product catalog using Best Buy’s own public APIs, meaning you can now find pricing information, specifications, product images and model numbers for any product you wish, using just your voice.
Just in time for the holidays, we’re introducing a new functionality that provides consumers with a unique approach to shopping. By leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, Wolfram|Alpha users will now be able to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products. Wolfram|Alpha’s intuitive natural-language interface helps you hone in on the precise products you need, while its powerful data visualization capabilities give you an innovative overview of any shopping category.
We’ve taken the strengths we’ve developed in math, science, and socioeconomic data and created something equally unique and useful for online shoppers. Type in the name of a product category—”dishwashers” or “tablet computers,” for example—and Wolfram|Alpha generates a comprehensive, custom analysis. What are the typical dimensions and other physical characteristics of other products in this class? How common is a given product feature?
Wolfram|Alpha helps you to answer these questions.
Pretty neat, eh?
Whilst Siri itself is still limited to providing this information through its built-in integration with Wolfram Alpha, in the future, Apple could add support for Best Buy’s product catalog (and many more like it) directly into Siri’s personality – and with rumors the company could be working on a television with Siri functionality as its main selling point, Apple could also be about to reinvent the way we shop from home.
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[...] As noted by RazorianFly, Siri can now help you retrieve the best deals for consumer electronics and gadgets sold at Best Buy. How does she handle this, you might us. Well, as you already know Siri gets some of its answers from the acclaimed answer-engine Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Research announced yesterday that they are leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, allowing users to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products sold by Best Buy. [...]
[...] RazorianFly reports that Best Buy has team up with Wolfram Alpha to give iPhone 4S user access to its entire product catalog via Siri – Apple’s new voice recognition and voice command technology. Just in time for the holidays, we’re introducing a new functionality that provides consumers with a unique approach to shopping. By leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, Wolfram|Alpha users will now be able to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products. Wolfram|Alpha’s intuitive natural-language interface helps you hone in on the precise products you need, while its powerful data visualization capabilities give you an innovative overview of any shopping category. [...]
[...] As noted by RazorianFly, Siri can now help you retrieve the best deals for consumer electronics and gadgets sold at Best Buy. How does she handle this, you might us. Well, as you already know Siri gets some of its answers from the acclaimed answer-engine Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Research announced yesterday that they are leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, allowing users to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products sold by Best Buy. [...]
[...] As noted by RazorianFly, Siri can now help you retrieve the best deals for consumer electronics and gadgets sold at Best Buy. How does she handle this, you might us. Well, as you already know Siri gets some of its answers from the acclaimed answer-engine Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Research announced yesterday that they are leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, allowing users to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products sold by Best Buy. [...]
@gilbertjasono @techmeme If she was really smart, Siri would help us NOT shop at Best Buy.
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] also capable of retrieving the best deals of electronics and gadgets available at Best Buy, reports RazorianFly.The newly added feature of Best Buy has recently been added to Siri by Wolfram Alpha, a company [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] Use Siri to Get Product Information from Best Buy: Now that Wolfram Alpha has added Best Buy’s product database to their search you can use Siri to ask questions about products carried by Best Buy. [RazorianFly] [...]
[...] Use Siri to Get Product Information from Best Buy: Now that Wolfram Alpha has added Best Buy’s product database to their search you can use Siri to ask questions about products carried by Best Buy. [RazorianFly] [...]
[...] Christoph – 17. Dezember 2011In der Kategorie: Software Wolfram Alpha hat eine neue Funktionalität vorgestellt, mit der man Best Buy mit Siri durchsuchen kann, berichtet TUAW. Just in time for the [...]
[...] [via Razorian Fly and Tuaw] [...]
Or Siri could be connected to a platform of trusted product data maintained by the product manufacturers themselves. http://bit.ly/txldfs
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] noted by TUAW (via RazorianFly), Best Buy has made a new deal with Wolfram Alpha, the major source of information [...]
[...] sito RazorianFly ha scoperto che Siri ora è in grado di accedere all’ampio database messo a disposizione da [...]
[...] [via Razorian Fly and Tuaw] [...]
[...] Use Siri to Get Product Information from Best Buy: Now that Wolfram Alpha has added Best Buy’s product database to their search you can use Siri to ask questions about products carried by Best Buy. [RazorianFly] [...]
[...] example. Well, buckle up, because 9to5Mac is reporting that this dream has come (partially) true. According to RaziorianFly, Wolfram Research announced Thursday that the company’s Wolfram Alpha database can now tap into [...]
[...] retailers and other third party services to make Siri and iPhone even more useful for consumers. [RazorianFly] __spr_config = { pid: '4eec95e5396cef79600001f3', title: 'Siri can now access the whole Best [...]
[...] RazorianFly [...]
Wow that is a great idea and now if other retailers such as Amazon, Walmart etc. do it we can shop for the best deal.
But its a smart more on Best Buy’s part.
[...] un covo di geek appassionati di business e tecnologia e, quando si è letta la notizia di Siri che apre a Best Buy tramite Wolfram Alpha, la prima espressione è stata una sola: [...]
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[...] As noted by RazorianFly, Siri can now help you retrieve the best deals for consumer electronics and gadgets sold at Best Buy. How does she handle this, you might us. Well, as you already know Siri gets some of its answers from the acclaimed answer-engine Wolfram|Alpha and Wolfram Research announced yesterday that they are leveraging data from Best Buy’s public APIs, allowing users to browse more than 35,000 appliances and consumer electronics products sold by Best Buy. [...]