{"id":265519,"date":"2018-06-22T08:19:48","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T06:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=265519"},"modified":"2018-06-22T08:20:18","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T06:20:18","slug":"bing-launches-new-intelligent-visual-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/265519-bing-launches-new-intelligent-visual-search.html","title":{"rendered":"Bing launches new intelligent visual search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bing.com\/search\/june-2018\/Visual-search-from-Bing-now-lets-you-search-what-you-see\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Bing has launched<\/strong><\/a> new intelligent visual search capabilities which makes it possible to search the web using your smartphone camera.<\/p>\n<p>The new visual search capabilities are initially only available in the United States on the Bing app for iOS and Android, and for Microsoft Launcher (Android only).<\/p>\n<p>These features are also being rolling out for Microsoft Edge for Android and will be coming soon to Microsoft Edge for iOS and Bing.com.<\/p>\n<p>To use Bing\u2019s new visual search capabilities, users can take a photo using the Bing app or upload a photo from their camera roll.<\/p>\n<p>Bing will identify the object in question and give you more information by providing additional links to explore.<\/p>\n<p>Bing\u2019s new visual search capabilities also allow users to shop from their photos for fashion and home furnishings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s say you see a friend&#8217;s jacket you like, but don&#8217;t know its brand or where to purchase. Upload a pic into the app&#8217;s search box and Bing will return visually-similar jackets, prices, and details for where to purchase,\u201d Microsoft said.<\/p>\n<p>The video below shows Bing\u2019s visual search capabilities in action.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YAjUX-Px6Yc\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/242086-microsoft-adds-ai-features-to-bing.html\">Microsoft adds AI features to Bing<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bing has launched new intelligent visual search capabilities which makes it possible to search the web using your smartphone camera.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":229497,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[1938,39302,51837],"class_list":["post-265519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-bing","tag-photos","tag-visual-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":265529,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265519\/revisions\/265529"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}