Microsoft Introduces Visual Search for Bing

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It’s been a big week for Microsoft. The company today launched the Zune HD, and on Monday afternoon, it rolled out something called visual search for search engine, Bing.

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  • nirvanabah
    How long til we can search for pr0n stars by boob size?
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  • chaohsiangchen
    nirvanabahHow long til we can search for pr0n stars by boob size?
    That's probably what it is intended from the beginning.
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  • ssalim
    I have to install silverlight? darn.
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  • Rancifer7
    Ahh the possibilities! With porn of course.
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  • phizik
    I have to admit this looks really cool...it works here (outside the US)
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  • deathblooms2k1
    I just used it for looking at dog breeds, and it worked pretty well. I narrowed down the criteria that I wanted, picked a picture of a dog I thought looked nice then got wiki pages/ breeder, rescue organizations. I don't think this will change the face of search engines but I definitely see it as being a very useful tool, such as shopping for a car or maybe even looking for Houses. In this specific instance with searching for dogs I discovered a breed that might be more suitable for me, and I probably never would of considered it otherwise.
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  • doomtomb
    Oh... it requires installing Silverlight. No thanks.
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  • FlayerSlayer
    Funny how Microsoft wants the world to use Silverlight instead of flash, but only MS sites USE Silverlight. Everyone else uses Flash. So do we install and use Silverlight to visit MS, or do we stop trying to visit MS?

    I seem to recall IBM tried this. They made OS/2 only compatible with IBM printers, hoping to sell more printers. Instead, people just avoided OS/2.
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  • Edex
    Doesn't work for me either (Latvia) :(, looks cool though.
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  • p05esto
    Silverlight is used on a lot of sites and applications, far more than you think. There are also a LOT of advantages over Flash. The integration with .NET and the possibilities that provide are eye-opening. Flash is becoming old, legacy weighed down tech....Adobe doesn't even have Flash for 64 bit browsers yet, it's that poorly written. And 64 bit browsers have been out for a few years now. Think about that one.
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