Microsoft today announced a significant update to Bing Image Search. The company says the new user experience adapts based on your query and screen resolution, is touch friendly as well as “extensible enough to support the direction we’re heading in.”
As Bing has gained new search suggestions and alternate content, and as users increasingly access the service from a wider array of devices (with and without touch), the old experience just couldn’t cut it. Microsoft admits it “struggled to cleanly support new content, different resolutions and input methods.”
With the new design, the results page expands to the full width of your screen, and images shown have higher fidelity as well as less likely to be cropped or altered. Exploration suggestions will show up dynamically, instead of by default on the first page, based on your screen resolution.
Both on Windows 8 computers and iPads, you can swipe through inline carousels as well as select an image first and swipe to see more. Microsoft says these improvements will also come to Kindle and Android tablets “soon.”
More to follow.
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