Amazon, Temu, and AliExpress already have visual search. Desktop just hides it.
I shop on a laptop. A lamp on Amazon that costs too much. A jacket in a listing photo. Something I saw on eBay and wanted to check on Temu. On my phone, that is a camera tap. On desktop, the camera icon is mostly missing. So I built SameSame , a browser extension I still use every day. It does not send your photo to a third-party reverse-image API. It opens the visual search each store already…
Amazon, Temu, and AliExpress already offer visual search capabilities that are functional on mobile devices, but these tools are often hidden or not easily accessible on desktop versions of their websites. This creates a frustrating experience for users who want to search for items using visual search on their laptops. The author, Fgiust, built an extension called SameSame to address this issue, allowing users to perform visual searches directly on any web page without having to save images or use third-party services.
The extension opens the existing visual search tools that Amazon, Temu, and AliExpress already have, providing results from the specific store's catalog rather than a general web search. SameSame is independent and does not collect user data, but it connects users to the visual search capabilities that are already available on the platforms they use.
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