Visual Search

The United States of America Microsoft" will be" the search engine has started trying to launch a " visual search " feature, through the picture to help users more convenient to perform specific search task

Sleep search - Demo

Microsoft senior vice president Mahdi in September 14, 2009 in San Francisco at a technology conference demonstrates" visual search " mode of operation. Users do not have to be directly input words, can be arranged through the picture library search. Still in the testing phase of" visual search" page has entertainment, celebrity, reference information, shopping and sports such as the 5 major categories of gallery, below them are further divided into nearly 40 picture library, such as shopping category using the icon into mobile phone, digital camera, high-definition TV and car etc..

Search engine technology

Visual search, by Bing search engine ( Bing ) launched a new search function, to Microsoft Silverlight technology as the support, in the interaction picture library display of search results.

New functionality is only aimed at 50 specific search results ( the future will continue to increase), such as a digital camera, a new car, major league players, and pop songs, with beautiful Silverlight driver fly-in thumbnail image. If you define your search request, do not meet the new definition of the thumbnail will fly out of the screen, while others rearrange to fill the vacated positions. Search results are also connected to other Bing search results page and the small procedures, such as shopping webpage and athletes' performance statistics.

For example, if the user input words, it will be a grid picture of the way to organize the search results, the user can drag the slider to scroll; when the user moves the mouse stays in a picture, the corresponding name in the search box. In addition, users can press the picture size, tolerance, reordering.

Will have 100 a variety of visual Gallery, ranging from movies, books, cars to products, animal and sports team and many other fields, classified in the category of each will change. In the movie as an example, the user can press the release date, title or scoring conditions can pass through the filter; automotive manufacturers, price or mileage classification. When the user makes a classification, picture on the screen and to find a new location.

The Visual Search function shows the search engine will structural information into their search results to the true value.

Microsoft senior vice president Joseph Mahdi ( Yusuf Mehdi ) said:" the function of the whole concept is to search the world will change, people will be more the image of the way to search for".

The development of visual search

In order to identify the images, search through the visual features, to provide users with the Internet search image data retrieval services of professional search engine, search engine is a kind of subdivision.

The emergence of many in order to identify the images of the search engine, including Baidu Baidu identify the images, Antu seized the shopping search engine, Google to map and so on.