Bing’s new feature in image search – “Pin It”
4/26/2013 10:56:00 am
The
famous Bing programmer Chen Fang blogged on the hosting of events which
involved the lifestyle and design bloggers that would make the concept of
searching and social media clear to the users. He said that, our society does a huge amount of image
searches on Bing and Pinterest can be useful in this regard.He generalised
the troubles that a normal user faces in tracking the source of an image and
Pinterest has found efficient ways to locate the original, high quality
pictures.
He
also blogged about the sidebar efforts and the extra facility that “Pin It” button can provide. Basically,
user’s don’t have to copy and paste anymore which meant less use of plug in’s. People can search for images directly from
Bing to their Pinterest boards.
Bing
has researched in the last season and after so many conferences and seminars,
they have launched the Pinterst button.Earlier in this year, Yahoo had also introduced an extra
feature in its image searching technology. It brought the “Flickr” images
back to its original image search. It also allows people to search for the
pictures licensed under Creative Commons licenses for its use in different
kinds of applications.
Bing’s
Pin to Pinterest feature figures out the link and automatically detects and
links it back to the original source of the image to save time for the pinner
and to ensure proper attribution. This feature is already installed in the
search engine and that is why it does not require to install a bookmarklet.
In the announcement, Bing focussed on the
ways in which one can search for better images using quotation marks and the
site within specific sites. As for some examples:
- “Summer dresses” site:anthropologie.com
- “Swimsuit” site:nordstrom.com
- “memorial day party recipes” site:snackpicks.com
- “grill recipes” site:seriouseats.com
Anyway,
the point is the user can directly pin
it to the pinterest when Bing Image search is used at bing.com/images.
Its working procedure is written as follows:
- Perform a Bing Search.
- Being on the Bing page, you can see the images that are asked for.
- Click on the image and click on “Pin it”, and then add a description to the image.
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