Visual Search

lifeinfocus

If you haven't tried it yet, check out the following:
http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

Very cool. What is it? It's Microsoft's beginnings of a visual search engine. Try it and note the filters to the left to quickly narrow your search.

Phil

ivar

lifeinfocus wrote:

If you haven't tried it yet, check out the following:
http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

Very cool. What is it? It's Microsoft's beginnings of a visual search engine. Try it and note the filters to the left to quickly narrow your search.

Phil

Hi Phil,

I moved this to the Big Picture, since it's not really related to SmugMug customization.

That link doesn't really work for me. Do you have another one by any chance? I see a bing header, but also an error message saying that page doesn't exist?

lifeinfocus

ivar wrote:

Hi Phil,

I moved this to the Big Picture, since it's not really related to SmugMug customization.

That link doesn't really work for me. Do you have another one by any chance? I see a bing header, but also an error message saying that page doesn't exist?

OK, good place to put it. Try again or search through any search engine for "Bing visual search" or "Microsoft visual search". There are a number of news articles on it.

http://www.bing.com/visualsearch

I expect that this is fairly sophisticated and complex technology, but I could someday seeing this on photo websites. Hmm?

ian408

lifeinfocus wrote:

I expect that this is fairly sophisticated and complex technology, but I could someday seeing this on photo websites. Hmm?

In iPhoto '09, you can identify a face and the software will search through your gallery and find other instances of that face. Of course, the more instances you identify, the better the search result in iPhoto will be. Doesn't work so well with things or animals