Bing launches visual search

A beta version of the Bing search was introduced at TechCrunch50 yesterday. Visual search allows you to navigate to specific sections.


After selecting a category, the user will be presented with a set of visual presentations in descending order of popularity. There are 39 total categories so far, there is even a category of the most popular applications for iPhone, and the World Leaders category presents a photo of Putin.

Under the cut there are examples with the content of categories, BMW X5, Putin, Medvedev, Obama, chemical elements and my favorite movie The Godfather .

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The Greates Movies section will display the following list:


Section of elements of the periodic table:


Another section of World Leaders will show this list of world leaders:


Of particular interest is distributed New Cars:

In this section, new cars are sorted by the first letter of the name; when you hover over an element, the name of the car and some of its characteristics are displayed.

After selecting the category item, the user will be taken to a search result that relates to the selection.

PS: it is worth considering the status of the beta version, some sections may not work correctly or other failures occur. Visual search is still under development.