March 6, 2009

Is Microsoft to release a visual image search engine?

Filed under: image search, news — Peter @ 3:22 pm

Technology News asks: “Will Microsoft’s Kumo Bring New Visual Dimension to Search?” and answers: “Microsoft seems to be amping up visual search capabilities in its upcoming Kumo search engine, if leaked screenshots are any indication.”

Well, they aren’t (see for yourself here). And neither is the leaked email.

The reporter seems to have been swayed by the CEO of Imprezzeo, a company offering their own image-to-image search engine.

Microsoft is certainly capable of doing that, e.g., Lincoln. Incidentally, Imprezzeo’s site has only a video demo.

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