SEATTLE - Microsoft Corp. is testing a way to display some search results as galleries of moveable images instead of text links. That's part of the ongoing attempt to differentiate Microsoft's Bing search engine from Google.
Bing's new visual search page lets people flip through pictures to track down where and when a popular movie is playing, read up on baseball players or shop for items like digital cameras.
Microsoft picked about 50 categories and worked with outside companies, including shopping sites, to pull in the necessary pictures and descriptions.
The function was being unveiled Monday at a conference staged by the TechCrunch blog in San Francisco.
