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Monday, June 8. 2009

Bing Maps Geocodes Searched Images

I didn't find this feature, Gary Price noted it on his Resource Shelf blog.

Basically, you do an image search on Bing for a city. I used Boston and found these. If you click on the "Show Map" link you'll see the images posted on Bing Maps.

So, how does Microsoft geocode the images? A Microsoft spokesperson responded to my question:

We used an algorithm to associate top points of interest and then used our Image Search index and Bing Maps technology to associate images with those points of interest in selected cities.


Posted by Adena Schutzberg in Microsoft at 07:08 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) | Bookmark and Share

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Doesn't really say much - I wonder if things like surrounding text and alt tags come into it? (ie. like Google's image search).

I see searching on "Leeds" does mainly come up with Leeds (the city) but also a number of photos of the London Eye on the first page. This was Bing UK - for some reason Bing thinks I'm in the UK.
#1 GeoWebGuru (Link) on 2009-06-08 17:20 (Reply)
seems to be location dependent as "State College PA" doesn't have a show map option.
#2 Ian Turton on 2009-06-10 15:53 (Reply)

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