Ever since they launched Bing earlier this year the folks at Microsoft have been releasing a rapid-fire stream of new features. Back in July we noted that some of these features – like infoboxes and topic galleries – are actually being powered by the structured data in Freebase. Very cool.

Their latest feature, Visual Search Galleries, takes structured browsing even further, providing a slick visual interface for slicing and dicing a collection of search results – like Digital Cameras, Dog Breeds, or Movies in Theaters. We’re excited to see that Freebase is helping to power this feature as well.

If you go to the Visual Search homepage and click on the Dog Breeds gallery, you’ll see a nice visual display of 161 popular dog breeds:

You can scroll through it, hover over an image to get more information about that breed, or use the filters on the left to narrow your search based on attributes like Size or Exercise Needs. As the attribution notice in the lower right shows, this data is being pulled straight from Freebase.

It’s great to see Freebase being used to help power search in deeper and more interesting ways!