Microsoft has plumped up Bing with Visual Search, a Silverlight-powered add-on that returns search results based on images instead of text. A user can initiate a search for digital cameras, for example, by clicking on an image in the Visual Search gallery. That generates hundreds of camera images; the user can click on any one of them for further investigation or narrow the results using one-click filters. Introduced as a beta, Visual Search will become available to users on a rolling basis over the month.
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Bing Aims to Pull Visual Search Into Focus
Posted by: Erika Morphy September 15, 2009 02:30 PMMicrosoft has plumped up Bing with Visual Search, a Silverlight-powered add-on that returns search results based on images instead of text. A user can initiate a search for digital cameras, for example, by clicking on an image in the Visual Search gallery. That generates hundreds of camera images; the user can click on any one of them for further investigation or narrow the results using one-click filters. Introduced as a beta, Visual Search will become available to users on a rolling basis over the month.