Microsoft shows off Pivot visual search project

Posted on Friday, November 20 2009 @ 10:25 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
NeoWin reports Microsoft's Live Labs division demonstrated Pivot at PDC 2009, this is a new visual search project. You can check it out in the video below.
Microsoft Technical Fellow Gary Flake revealed Pivot as a standalone application based on Microsoft's established Seadragon and Deep Zoom technologies . The application highlights a new way of searching using a series of linked data. In the session Flake demonstrated Pivot several times and explained that the architecture is simple and based on existing web technologies. The application is a .NET client which uses Seadragon and Deep Zoom collections. Microsoft's trident layout engine (MSHTML) or better known as Internet Explorer is also used in the application.


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