Bing image search will now help you buy things

Bing is overhauling its image search page to make it show a lot more information and, hopefully, be a lot more useful. The most interesting new feature basically allows you to shop through image search. When you select an image of a product, one of the first things you'll see below it is a strip of website logos showing where you can buy it. Click on one, and it'll try to take you out to the right product page — it doesn't always work perfectly, though: a baseball bat accidentally took me to the purchase page for what was described as a "Five Lobe Viking Sword With Scabbard." Bing notes that this feature is still in beta.

The image search page is getting a number of slight design tweaks, including the addition of more information when...

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