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Is Google trying to ape Bing with visual search?

Created by : Mahalakshmi Subramanium, QA/QC Manager, Genpact  | 11 04 2009 14:27:37 +0000
Industry : InternetFunctional Area : Business Models(Strategy & Execution)
Keywords : google bing visual search side bars
Activity:  169 views;  last activity : 07 06 2010 20:18:09 +0000

Google has recently come up with a new feature of visual search leaving behind its old feature of Page previews option on to its sidebar.

Page preview allows users to see more snippets of text than just few lines. It also shows preview of the image on right side of each search results. The search images seems to bundle Google images library results with web search results rather than giving out recent screenshot. Although this feature is full of bugs as few images misses out on search pages it could still be called a good experiment.

Microsoft too launched Visual search for Bing few months ago which seems to have elicited response from Google. Till now users looking for visual search had to rely on Firefox and other browser plug-ins but making it available in search results sidebar could be boon for searchers as and when this feature gets added functionality.

So what do you think friends? Is Google really trying to ape Bing or consumer prefer visual search?

 
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Yes, than aping I can say that they were a bit bothered about the increase in bing's success with their new visual search and this made Google take immediate action, Google which dominated the search and still does, but didn't want to step down on the accelerator, and to cut of competition from new entrants and stiff fight from traditional rival, they just upped the ante with this new visual search...not only Google search but also Orkut which has got a makeover to gain a new lease of life with facebook and twitter doing really well in this space.
By Prarthana Devi, Database Architect/Designer, Leading IT Company  11 04 2009 15:01:13 +0000
 
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YES..this is definitely going to help Google  in gaining  popularity.. as Google is  already  trend setter search engines..   


By varsha , Head/VP/GM-Quality, frac  | 11 29 2009 07:26:55 +0000
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prarthana ,

i agree to your views....


By dilip gour, NA, ABCABC  | 11 05 2009 17:11:43 +0000
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Yes, google must be bothered by the rapid popularity gained by Bing's visual search.
By Hari Prasad K, Head - Managed Services & IT Solutions  | 11 05 2009 10:14:49 +0000
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Of course Google is copying Bing. It will make Google search more popular among the users. It seems Google have realized that making a search on its search engine is a two second affair but checking the correct content takes more time specially due to high page sizes. Thus this preview functionality will allow its users to filter out search results which they are looking for.
By Leena Pawar, Tech Architect, IT Infotech  | 11 04 2009 14:41:51 +0000
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It really does not matter who is copying who. As an end user, I am more than happy to see the new features coming out of the so called competition. The real question is, do we really need the Visual Search? Can visual search make our job easy? If yes, then it will become a standard feature in all the search engines. Personally,  I would rather focus on quality and relevancy of search results in text.
By Ramesh Sharma, Head-IT, MPS Technologies Limited  | 11 29 2009 08:15:54 +0000
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It will be too early to say that Google is copying Bing as a future play but nothing can be ignored looking at the way Google spear-heads the search revolution. Google may loose serious ad revenues if this feature was to enabled by default on Google search pages so Google at best will be providing it as a search additions and will looking at response garnered from users to make any move in merging the functionality to default search.
By Mahalakshmi Subramanium, QA/QC Manager, Genpact  | 11 04 2009 14:45:01 +0000
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