Visual Search

Google’s M&A of the Day: “Visual Search” Start-Up, Plink

Peter Kafka in Media on April 12, 2010 at 5:03 am PT

It’s Monday, which means that Google has purchased another company. Today’s deal is for Plink, a U.K. start-up that specializes in “visual search”–the future-is-now technology that lets you hunt for something on the Web by taking a picture of it with your smartphone.

Liveblogging Bing Demo: No Donuts, Unlikely to Pay for De-Indexing Google, but Cool New Maps

Kara Swisher in News on December 2, 2009 at 10:10 am PT

BoomTown is awaiting a passel of Microsoft execs, who will be talking about a range of new features for Bing. I will be liveblogging, but I must say, I wish there were donuts.

Guns, Lots of Guns: A Video of Microsoft's Bing Visual Search, Aiming Right at Google

Kara Swisher in News on September 15, 2009 at 2:52 am PT

With all the Microsoft employees tweeting about Bing 2.0 last week, especially its new Visual Search offering, launched yesterday, BoomTown thought it might be better just to show it in action. Think of that scene in “The Matrix” when Neo asks for “guns, lots of guns,” and you have a good idea of what it looks like. Microsoft is going to need a lot more of this kind of innovative firepower if it hopes to have a chance of competing in search against Google.

Bing: Now With Visual Search

John Paczkowski in News on September 14, 2009 at 11:11 am PT

Hoping to further differentiate its new Bing search engine from market leader Google, Microsoft is moving away from the proverbial “10 blue links” we so often associate with the search experience. During a presentation at the TechCrunch 50 event in San Francisco, the company announced Bing Visual Search, a Silverlight-based feature that replaces those links with images.