Recently, antisemitic memes have appeared in Google Image search, and many want something done about this particular content appearing. So far, Google isn’t the only search engine that these particular images are being found on. They are also being found on Bing and DuckDuckGo. It would seem simple to remove this content from the index, …

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On December 16, Microsoft announced that Windows users are now able to initiate Bing visual searches right from the search bar, without having to open a browser. US users will be the first to get the feature during the initial roll out, while international markets will follow shortly after that. Users can submit a full …

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A new image carousel feature is being tested by Bing that features a preview of the image accompanied by the page title and domain name on its main search results page. “We’re experimenting with it on a set of image answer queries,” the Bing Images team said. This test was seen by digital marketing consultant …

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Over at Perficient Digital, an image recognition study was released that looked at the accuracy of the respective technologies. The study found that Google Vision beat out the competition, which included Amazon AWS Rekognition, IBM Watson and Microsoft Azure Computer Vision. As you can see below, Google has scored the highest among the technologies: There were …

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Microsoft made its Space Partition Tree And Graph (SPTAG) algorithm available to all as an open source GitHub project. This algorithm is used in their own Bing search engine. The algorithm uses vector search and deep learning models, which provides results based on search intent. The intent of the algorithm is designed to allow users …

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Bing has announced large upgrades to their text-to-speech capabilities in voice search, visual search capabilities and improvements to their intelligent answers. According to the company, Bing’s intelligent answers are smarter by leveraging their own deep learning models.  Bing says that they are able to answer “harder questions than ever before”by being able to use advancements in GPU …

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A new product is being added by Bing that is expanding its image search toolset, allowing users to search for specific items shown within a larger image. This product is being called Bing Visual search, and is available now as part of the Bing’s existing image search tools. When I went onto Bing and did a …

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On Wednesday, November 16th, Bing announced a new “My Saves” feature that makes it possible for users who are signed into their Bing accounts to save video, image and shopping searches.  This means that they’ll be able to access them at a later time across their desktop and mobile devices. According to this announcement, if you hover …

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