Newspaper Scanning Coming to Bing Search Soon
Bing search on WP already has a lot more functionality than you’d expect, currently being able to search by voice, scan music, find locations, read QR tag, scan book covers and translate text; However soon it will also support the ability to scan newspaper text and directly link you to that article online (for over 30,000 publications)- which sounds pretty cool.
In case you want to see some of the bing Functionality watch this:
Props to Kaizer Aleen for the tip
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- Newspaper Scanning Coming to Bing Search Soon | | February 22, 2012
Unfortunately, half of Bing’s features aren’t available to… 2/3rd of the markets that Nokia is going to push the Lumia.
C’mon, Microsoft, work harder for countries that aren’t US/Europe.
Have to agree there. Bizarre thing is part of the Bing team (or maybe the whole team?) is in Germany, but the services are pretty US centric.
Also, unless something is just wrong with my Lumia 710, it only scans the MS QR codes rather than the universal ones everyone else uses. I was annoyed at having to download a QR code reader.
What do you mean MS QR codes? Microsoft? Mine is universal. I scanned Xbox games, CDs, DVDs and all were successful
MS has their own codes that are a combination of triangles. Then there are the square ones that almost everyone else uses, I tried scanning them with bing vision and got nothing.
One too many S’s in the title. Thanks for the info. I’m glad to see features like this built into the OS. Back in 2008 I was using Nokia’s preinstalled Barcode app on my N82 to achieve similar yet clumsier and slower results.
Nokia reminds me of the Sega Dreamcast, great ideas, great technology and ahead of its time, with it’s own success hampered from within and ultimately sitting by as the competition learns from it and takes over, leaving a once it’s once bright future in shambles.
Now I’m not talking about Elop or OSes, just technology. Front facing cameras, connectivity like USB OTG and HDMI, Massive 32GB storage and even the inclusion of GPUs in the N95 era. Nokia had plenty of technological first’s and opportunities to capitalize but in every instance they played it safe and shot themselves in the foot and or did nothing but watch competitors become market leaders by executing the same technology a million times better.
The Dreamcast is special and so is Nokia.
Wait…what does all this have to do with the Bing update….ahhhhh, it’s after 2am…past my bed time.
Exact same shit could happen with Bing if MS isn’t fast enough.
Nokia Maps even has transit directions while Bing Maps (app rather than HTML5) still doesn’t have it. Bing Vision only handles one kind of QR code, now imagine if Apple decides to but a dedicated camera button on the iPhone 6 (what everyone’s calling 5, but the 4S is really 5) for the same quick pocket to camera access Windows Phone has and then makes the camera intelligently decide if it’s taking a picture or going to scan a barcode. Hold it up to a QR code and a notification bar pops up and you can tap on the link to go there, or if you really wanted to take a picture you just snap the picture of the QR code. Scan a barcode on a CD and you get that same notification bar popping up for a link to buy the album in iTunes, etc, etc.
Idea started with Bing Vision and potentially implemented better on the iPhone.
Reason I’m bringing this up is with Bing Maps there was an oversight, if I used the US Bing Maps but asked for transit directions in Canada, I’d get them, but if I used the Canadian Bing Maps there weren’t transit directions. Contacted a friend of mine who works on Bing Search, he passed it on to the maps team and it was fixed in 3 days. Mentioned the same thing about the absence of transit directions on Windows Phone, all he could guess was that the feature was on a throttled release, but it’s almost a year later and still no sign of it. That looks like the exact same kind of internal sabotage that Nokia appears to have been experiencing.
I wouldn’t exactly mind if they incorporated bing search into the symbian platform, I would love bing search to be something that I could easily access from my phones home screen. I’ve found search widgets to more annoying than anything else.
What they need to do is integrate ALL of Bing’s features into Nokia Maps, or make Nokia Maps the de-facto map function within Bing.
I’m sure that’s what they are doing now, but they need to do it fast.
I love how WP integrates many of its services, but it needs to realise that the integration is crippled in many parts of the world that either :
- have only Bing Search/Voice Search
- have no XBOX Live
They’re realising it for China. Seems only because of the great firewall though.
I use bing all the time for the n9, love it.
well using wp7 shouldnt mean you should be force fed everything ms.
Some think WP is actually suprisingly open, e.g. in terms of email, calendar, contacts:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2012/0217/1224311916887.html
Did I not tip this story?
Woops, sorry mate; typed this up in 5 minutes right before I left for Uni- my bad.
Why would you scan a newspaper in your hands and read it online instead of either reading the newspaper itself or just directly going to the new website????!!!
well, you might eg be in a book store or a newstand and not want to buy the magazine.
I find the current Bing search features really useful, and this newspaper scanner sounds very good. They are the type of things which I wouldn’t necessarily download if they weren’t already there, but am pleased to have them on my device.
I used the music search the other day and ended up buying the track from the market place, however I used the PC version of Zune because I had some MS points I wanted to use up.
All of Bing Search – Voice, Vision, Music, and Scout – is what I am really looking forward to utilizing when I purchase a Nokia WP. No need to launch a Shazam app, no need to launch a QR code reader app, no need for a Poynt app…everything is baked right into the OS, at the touch of a button:)
That is one of my favorite things about my Lumia 710. You will love it. Today, at work, it took my friend so much longer to scan a code because he had to locate the app and then load the app and then press capture to scan. I just clicked the search button, clicked the eye icon and boom, located. I didn’t even have to press anything to scan the code.
Done!
That’s the theory. It hasn’t been implemented well yet.
I should be able to just start typing an address and have it go straight to maps, instead of showing me a web result that I have to tap that’ll then launch the maps app.
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