Microsoft's Bing Launches Visual Search

Posted on September 27, 2009

Bing has announced a new Visual Search feature. They argue that if you are looking for things like an actor you can't remember or a new car sometimes it is easier and smarter to search visually instead of entering text.

Visual Search is a new way to formulate and refine your search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured. We call these data groupings galleries. Simply go to www.bing.com/visualsearch and install Silverlight if you don't have it already. What you'll see is an amazing new visual search experience. Visual Search allows you to quickly scroll through the galleries or do a one-click refinement using the quick tabs on the left, which are specifically relevant to the type of results you are browsing through.

Bing has lots of visual search categories available include dog breeds, digital cameras, tv shows, U.S. politicians, MLB teams and yoga poses. You do have to install Microsoft Silverlight to use visual search.