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November 9, 2015

Pinterest’s visual search tool can identify items in a pin

by John_A

Lots of people turn to Pinterest for inspiration, but it can be a hassle to figure out who makes that whiskey barrel table. Now that the site has buyable pins and shopping pins, it has launched a visual search tool to make it easier to find (and buy) that thing you saw. The tool is dead simple to use — when you see an object in a scene, like the light fixture shown above, you just select the search tool and draw a box around it. If it’s in Pinterest’s database, it’ll show you the name and where to find it, then let you buy it directly from retailers like Neiman Marcus or Macy’s, if available.

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