On Monday Microsoft released a beta of a portion of it's Bing search engine called "visual search," a new image-based approach to search aimed to compete with Google Image Search. Unlike Google Image Search, Microsoft Visual Search combines images with information from search results. Try it out with these sample search results here, and let me know what you think.
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Will, I gave it a try. This is clearly a baby step in that there were not that many image categories, but I did dig into the yoga poses. When you mouse over them you can see the name and the degree of difficulty. When you click on them you are back into the conventional search engine. A nice novelty, but seems more useful for entertainment than research.
ReplyDeleteI would agree. This is cool, but I am not going to use Bing instead of Google because I can now search "visually."
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