According to Mashable.com Microsoft's new search engine, Bing, has launched a new way to search. The aptly named "visual search" will allow a user to go through a grid of images, allowing the user to search even if they don't remember the name of whatever it was they were looking for. The visual search breaks the images up by category, making the search relatively user friendly. According to mashable, the feature is "powered by Silverlight, and the content for Visual Search is provided by several sources, one of them being MSN." What I'm looking forward to is Google's response to this challenge from Microsoft.
above is a screen shot of the main visual search page
Bing is cool. The hardest part of using it for me is to stop the Pavlovian response of typing in "Google" when I need to find something quickly.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can bet Google isn't particularly happy with this search alternative. Thanks for showing me the Visual Search option. I had not seen that before.