A Great iPhone App Finding Tool from Microsoft (no kidding): Bing Visual Search

If you are one of the millions of people who own an iPhone and are on the hunt for an interesting iPhone app, how would you go about doing that? One answer, I hope, is that you frequent this blog since it has a thing or two about iPhones on any given day. Or, you might visit one of the many sites that focus specifically on the iPhone or even just iPhone apps.

But, how many of you knew that Microsoft has a great new tool to help you find iPhone apps? They launched Bing’s Visual Search feature last week. And, to my surprise, one of its categories is…

Bing Visual Search: Top iPhone Apps

It lets you search for iPhone apps by popularity, price (lowest to highest or highest to lowest), release date and name. If you hover over an app’s thumbnail image, you will see its name, price, rank (in free or paid apps list), and release date.

I’ve found it especially useful for quickly finding recently released iPhone apps.

Who would have thought one of the best iPhone app finding tools would come from Microsoft?

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