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Google just do not want to be Internet search and ad delivering platform. They want to be the masters of the net. Most of the commerce will take place online in future and Google is gearing up for that with its latest offering – Boutiques.com. It took the first step in this regard when it acquired Like.com in August, 2010. From Like.com, Google got the image recognition technology required for this product. Earlier, Google used to follow simple meta data to recognize a picture. However a look at the Like.com website shows that Boutiques.com is almost same in terms of what Like.com used to do. Not sure what the exact difference Google is making Like.com and Boutiques.com. Before the launch of the site, Google sent special invites to fashion designers, fashion bloggers etc as follow:

Boutiques.com will put Google in direct competition with ebay with ebay’s fashion site – http://ebaylookbook.com/. The official Google blog says that it is a new way to buy fashion goods online and it offers you what you looking for. The search algorithm has been upgraded to understand fashion elements like colour, pattern etc. It is a collaboration various boutiques and fashion designers who feature their goods on the site and when an item is sold, Google make some commission.

As of now Boutiques.com is available only in the US and limited to women. For more information or help, visit its help section.

Website: http://www.boutiques.com/

With your ever growing list of friends, client etc in your email address book and the strain  of keeping in touch with all of them can be telling on you. Web application Etacts pulls out all contacts and analysis reminds you to contact. It also offers you to review your previous messages to that person if any at that very moment. This you know where you stand. It support all email addresses from Gmail to Hotmail.

If you use Gmail, you have little advantage. You do not need to enter you password, you just enter your Gmail address in the text box and then you are asked if you would like to allow Etacts to access your Gmail inbox. If you allow then it will look for your email data and analyze. They also offer a Gmail plugin. For other email service providers, you will have enter both the email address and password.

It shows with whom you did most of the correspondence and the most least, number of to and from messages etc. In others words, it provides a statistics of your email account.