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lifeinfocuslifeinfocus Registered Users Posts: 1,461 Major grins
edited September 15, 2009 in The Big Picture
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
http://www.PhilsImaging.com
"You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
Phil

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    ivarivar Registered Users Posts: 8,395 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2009
    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?
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    lifeinfocuslifeinfocus Registered Users Posts: 1,461 Major grins
    edited September 15, 2009
    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?
    http://www.PhilsImaging.com
    "You don't take a photograph, you make it." ~Ansel Adams
    Phil
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    ian408ian408 Administrators Posts: 21,911 moderator
    edited September 15, 2009
    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 :D
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