Bing making strides - now Visual Search
Bing announced it’s new search feature today - Visual Search. Visual Search allows you to look at information in imagery form. The information on the home page is organized into groups, which Bing calls “galleries”. They are offering a visual mechanism to slice and dice the information. Apart from facets on the left hand side, they now have the result area populated with images which users can hover to get more information, or click to dive deeper.
This definitely is an up from what the other major search engines provide as they are starting to play with specific visualization based on the “type” of information. Examples of it could be seen in Product Search, Book Search, Auto Search, etc.
Personally, I love it and makes search more engaging and leads the user into discovery mode. The only negative part is that I had to install a “plug-in” to my computer :(.
Traditionally speaking , it is hard to imagine our lives without search engine . Even the most recent glimmer of Google moving out of Chinese main land shows us that powerful search engines that practically regulate all the info we receive from internet can and will protect their interest without regards to the impact of their absence .