Windows 10 ships with a Photos app which replaced the Windows Photo Viewer and Photo Gallery. Its tile is pinned to the Start menu. It comes with tight integration with Microsoft's very own cloud solution, OneDrive. A new version of the app allows searching for similar images on Bing directly without opening the browser.
Windows 10 includes this app instead of the good old Windows Photo Viewer from Windows 7 and Windows 8.1. The Photos app is associated with most image file formats out of the box. It can be used to browse, share and edit your photos and your image collection.
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Note: The Photos app is included with Windows 10 by default. It receives updates automatically. If you have removed it or would like to upgrade it manually, navigate to this page on the Microsoft Store.
Starting in version 2019.19031.17720.0, which is released to Insiders a few days ago, you can search for similar images in Bing. Here's how it can be done.
To search for similar images on Bing with Windows 10 Photos app, do the following.
- Open any image with the Photos app.
- Right-click on that image, and select Search for similar images on Bing from the context menu.
- Click on the Agree button to send this image to the Bing service.
- The Bing Visual Search service will be opened in your default browser with the appropriate search result.
Note: Bing Visual Search is an image based search service that allows using an image as input for search through the image understanding and intent service. It is able to describe the image contents and find similar images.
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