Simplify the Web

After quite a time it looks like Microsoft has really started to work hard against Google (the established giant in search). With the recent release of Bing they feel they are in a position to truly contend with Google in the search arena.

Bing announced a new beta yesterday to leverage their declaration of being a decision engine and not just another search engine. Bing Visual Search was launched as a way to kick start your searches by identifying with well known images.

I took a moment to check it out, it's impressive to start with. I'm sure with some refining of the information within the search and working on a few more improved UI ability, things like searches in visual search should return visual results and not just act like the regular search engines, they could really have a winner here.

It's worth a look, if they can improve it a bit more I think they will really have a friendly search improvement for sure.