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 […]
As of March 7th, Flickr rolled out a “similarity search” option that gives users the ability to go deeper into their initial set of search results by clicking on an image to find the photo they want. “Today, we’re introducing similarity search, which uses advanced technology to allow you to discover visually similar photos without much work […]
When Pinterest teased how it will bring its visual search engine to the real world back on February 8th, the social network and search engine extended its ability to turn images into search queries across the wider web. Pinterest started updating its browser extensions on Tuesday so that people can click on an image on any web page and be shown related […]
The Open Directory Project that uses human editors to organize websites, otherwise known as DMOZ, is finally closing. This closing marks the end of that period of time when humans tried organizing the web. The news came in an announcement via a notice that’s being shown on the homepage of the DMOZ site. It says that it […]
When it first came out, Pinterest was considered to be a “social scrapbooking” or photo-sharing site. The CEO of Pinterest, Ben Silbermann has called it a “catalog of ideas.” The company has, for the most part, shunned the “social network” label. Regardless of what they would be considered, Pinterest has increasingly become an image search […]
It looks like Pinterest is bringing search to the real world. On Wednesday, the company introduced Lens, which is a mobile app that uses the phone’s camera to recognize physical objects and bring them up on Pinterest. There are other features that have been announced by the compnay that now extend search beyond the query bar […]
The Q&A app, Jelly has relaunched with a with a pledge to bring “humanity” back to search. Jelly originally launched in 2014, meeting with just a limited adoption. But now, a few years later, has been reworked and refreshed, and reintroduced to a wide audience. Basically, the idea behind Jelly is the idea that people can do a […]
The Wall Street Journal reported that Microsoft and Amazon are in talks to possibly take a minority stake in HERE Maps, who is owned by Audi, BMW and Daimler, earlier this week. There was a question of how aggressively HERE would be competing in the market ever since it was sold to the German consortium for just […]
The other day, it seemed that Wikipedia was reportedly going to try creating their own search engine, but today, the company has clarified its search-related intentions today. The Wikipedia Foundation has no plans on building a search engine to compete with the likes of Google. Rather, as stated in a blog post by two foundation […]
Yandex has add the mobile-friendly label to their mobile search results, for pages that meed their mobile-friendly criteria. This will mark Yandex as the third search engine to add this label to their mobile search results.The Russian Search Tips blog reported the change, and said that Yandex announced it in Russian, now making all mobile-friendly web sites show the […]