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Mature Market Experts Stat of the Day: Bing’s Visual Search Engine Could be Marketing Gold Mine

Written By: Tom Mann - Sep• 17•09

Bing Visual Search of Dogs

Bing Visual Search of Dogs

Mature Market Experts: more news and stats  you can use on boomer, seniors and the mature market -Bing’s Visual Search Engine Could be Marketing Gold Mine. On September 14, 2009 Microsoft introduced Bing’s Visual Search Engine at TechCrunch50. This powerful tool will eventually allow consumers to visually compare products and pricing right on Bing’s home page. At this stage of development you can access the service in beta, with Silverlight, Microsoft’s version of Flash, at bing.com/visualsearch. The computer giant will be adding more categories each month to the initial 50 offerings. Will your client’s consumer goods show up? Not unless they are listed by major retailers or industry data sources. To learn more click here.

This will be an interesting battle to watch between Microsoft and Google. Bing is particularly good at travel searches, which as you all know is a favorite category of boomers.

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