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Article: Microsoft fires shot at Google -- Bing's Visual Search.

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September 16, 2009
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Byline: jeevan@cpidubai.com (Staff)

Less than four months after Microsoft unveiled Bing, its revamped search engine, the company today released a beta version of Visual Search, which is also aimed directly at rival Google Inc.

Microsoft announced at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco that Visual Search is designed to let users search through galleries of images.

"How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can't seem to find the movie with "what's-his-name" in it anywhere but you can picture the actor in your head?" asked Todd Schwartz, a group product manager at ...

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