I was really hoping they had men's suits. I wear a somewhat difficult to find suit size and would love for Google to provide me one place for OTR suits in my size.
I am really starting to believe that Google does not have any designers working for them. What is with the search engine like feel for a website that has to do with fashion?
I understand if you are just selling regular goods online, but for something that speaks to peoples eyes should there not be some decent aesthetics involved.
I would disagree ... Look at: http://jackthreads.com/http://www.gilt.com/ or http://seshday.com/ I'd say that the majority of online fashion shops -- actual shops, not just a designer's site -- often have well designed, well thought out sites. Boutiques.com looks just like a very sterile, google site. No "fashion" at all.
(Disclosure: I work for Thrillist, the parent company of JackThreads. But I'm speaking for me and only me, in the comment above.)
Yes I did click through, but I still stand on my original comment. You would think that for Google being as massive as they are and for the unique fact that this is spun off without the word Google in front of the site name that they would spend some type of ample effort presenting a more eye pleasing site. My expectations for other online fashion shops are far less being that they are not Google.
Are they trying to be everything to everyone? It seems everything in the last two years has been unfocused, and consequently, ineffective. (Go is an exception.)
At its heart, a corporation is just a pile of money that hires people to make itself bigger somehow. The expectation that it confine itself to a few related lines of business is a reaction to the fad in the 1960s of making leveraged buyouts of arbitrary companies to game the share price of the resulting conglomerate.
This is a search engine optimized for searching for a very specific type of information. Then they've tacked on a way to monetize those searches. What could be more 'core' to Google than that? As such it seems to be the most focused product they've released in a while.
Just so people understand, Google is not happy that sites like Sugar, Inc.'s http://www.shopstyle.com/ are taking a chunk of commerce search away from them.
I'm sure it's all the more frustrating when they're building ad networks on top of their vertical search engines, too: http://shopsense.shopstyle.com/
This reminds me of Polyvore(http://polyvore.com/) - which has a few ex-googlers among their ranks. Most notably, Sukhinder Singh Cassidy, their CEO (via Accel) was the president of Asian-Pacific and Latin American Markets.
Sadly that seems to be the case. Unless I'm missing something there doesn't seem to be too much there for those of us with a penis. Seems like a bit of missed opportunity if you ask me.
In what way was that sexist? As far as I can see there is no menswear section. The most you can accuse the original comment of is being insensitive to transvestites.
"If you are a women" would have sufficed, or more correctly "If you want to buy women's clothing" e.g. as a present. I've noticed many comments reflect a typical consumer mindset i.e. people aren't interested in things unless they are the target audience and can use or buy it.
I perhaps should have worded it differently but was trying to make my statement as simply as possible. I'm actually speaking from a business standpoint - this new site/feature has been marketed pretty heavily. "A new way to shop for fashion", "Google wants to dress you", etc. all in arguably locations that probably skew male. I haven't seen any mention of it being targeted only to those wanting to purchase women's clothing and think the message is off because of that.
Are the product features 100% curated by humans/brands or is it pulling data feeds from Froogle (or whatever it's called now) and building outfits that way? Can't figure out the data?
Edit: Yes, http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/81927/20101115/google-fashio... http://techcrunch.com/2010/11/15/google-to-enter-fashion-sho... http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/11/17/googles-boutiques-com...