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visual_video_summary - The visual summary for the video as a mapping structured as follows:
• frames - An array of frame information in the size requested with visual_summary_size.

How many times have you seen a movie trailer and forgotten the name of it the next day? You go online to search for it but you can’t seem to find the movie with “what’s-his-name” in it anywhere but you can picture the actor in your head. A study conducted by Microsoft Research shows that consumers can process results with images 20% faster than text only results.  So it’s clear that images play a big part in helping consumer’s with a variety of search activities.

We have taken this to heart with Bing’s new Visual Search feature announced today as a beta at TechCrunch50. Visual Search is a new way to formulate and refine your search queries through imagery, particularly for sets of results that tend to be more structured. We call these data groupings galleries.  Simply go to www.bing.com/visualsearch and install Silverlight if you don’t have it already. What you’ll see is an amazing new visual search experience. Visual Search allows you to quickly scroll through the galleries or do a one-click refinement using the quick tabs on the left, which are specifically relevant to the type of results you are browsing through.

Now to find that movie you were looking for, click on “Movies” and scroll through the imagery to find “what’s-his-name.” Now that you found it, hover your mouse over the movie to view details including title, rating, reviews, and how much it grossed at the box office, all right under the search box. Think about how much time you saved using Visual Search.

Red Label is a hosted video search service provided by blinkx. Red Label lets you tap into more than 35 million hours of video - equivalent to over 3,000 years of continuous viewing!

Red Label is designed to maximize the targeting, fulfillment and monetization of your video search traffic in the most efficient and effective way. Red Label is built on top of the most advanced and robust technology for video analysis, speech recognition, indexing, search and online advertising placement, enabling you to maximize the commercial potential of your video assets.

Boom! is an intelligent search assistent that allows you to search more efficiently. It will analyze whatever it is that you are searching for and direct you to the search engine that is most likely to give you the best result.

If you search for "books by Dan Brown", it will not search on Google but instead move you directly to Amazon. Similarly, if you search for "pancake recipes" it will move you directly to "All Recipes" or if you want to find a hotel in Boston, simply search for "locate hotels in Boston" and it will search using Google Maps.

KallOut is creating a platform for improving search. To make this platform a success, we need your help. Join our developer community as we take search beyond the browser.

If you have any suggestions or if you're interested in getting a sneak peek at the KallOut API, drop us your email address and a brief note below. We'll contact you with more information as we get closer to launching the platform. Thanks!