What one does normally on weekends ?? Watches TV lying on
couch or goes out for a movie or plays games or simply sits idle in home and seldom
uses it for some productive work, but for we bloggers in Bangalore it was a
different experience all together last weekend. For us Saturday was filled with
entertainment, getting first-hand experience and details about new feature
called “Image Search” launched by Flipkart in presence of the Product and
marketing team of Flipkart. This event was jointly organized and hosted by Team
Indiblogger, one of the fastest growing Blogger Community in India and Flipkart
which is India’s biggest E-commerce origination at Hard Rock Café Bangalore.
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| Band performance to start the proceedings |
The event started with a Hell –Yeah energetic band performance
to make everyone more energetic on Lazy Saturday morning, then some willing bloggers
were given chance to introduce themselves and it was a lot of fun. After this meet and greet, it was
time to witness real crux of the event, it was time for team Flipkart to
present their flipkart image search feature and also to take variety of
questions from fellow bloggers, questions ranging from “Image search result
accuracy” to “Why Fliipkart is going for app only “and all these questions were
answered by Flipkart product team in great details and with lots of conviction.
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| Excited audience listening to team Flipkart |
About Flipkart Image Search:
Image Search is a new feature launched by Flipkart on app
only. Through this feature one can take image of an object or use an existing image
and search for products based on that image only. Based on the image provided
and options selected like for Men/Women, Clothing/Accessories and like that, app
will search exact or relatively close products. We got first-hand experience of
it and it was amazing to get such quick searches just be clicking images. Here
are simple steps to follow for image search.
1. Open recently updated Flipkart app and select Image Search
option at top
2. Click an image or upload existing image and search
3. Select product type like for Men/Women and other applicable categories
4. That is it, you are done.
After this flipkart session, next session was about Indiblogger
and their recently launched book 10 Love Stories which has 10 short love stories
by 10 bloggers who are part of Indiblogger community. Two of those 10 bloggers
were present at the event and also recited some excerpts from their stories in
the book. All bloggers who attend the event were provided the book. I have read
few stories from the book and really liked those, especially of Bangalore based
author Varsha Dutta.
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| Reading excerpts from her short story in the book |
Apart from the sessions, the lunch, the drink, the ambience and band music was really high class and meeting so many bloggers and social
media enthusiasts at one place really made our day.
For all those who couldn’t attend the event, here are the pics that explains everything about the event.
Thank you Team Indiblogger and Team Flipkart.
