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Bing Search Engine – Tips and Tricks 31 – 40

June 17th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

50 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. Here are tips 31-40.

30. Remove the Bing background image

To remove the background image in Bing’s search engine, enter the following url:

http://www.bing.com/?rb=0

This displays the homepage without the background image, making the download faster.

31. Search sites with filetype
To search for websites that contain links to Microsoft Windows Media Audio (.wma) files, type music contains:wma.

32. Search for files with a particular filetype.
To find document created in PDF format, type the name of the document, eg report, followed by filetype:pdf.

33. Snow reports
Type ‘snow report’ followed by a city. For example, type snow report Cairo.

34. Stock Quotes
In the search box, type the ticker symbol followed by stock or quote. For example to find the financial quotes of Microsoft, type MSFT stock or MSFT.

35. Statistical Information
In the Bing.com search box, type what you want to find. For example, population of England, or iphones in USA.

36. Track Flight Status

To see the status of your flight:

flight status for United – enter the flight number and press Get Status .

flight status - Bing prompts you to enter the flight name and number on the first result itself.

Enter the flight name and number and click Get Status.

37. MP3 Music Files

Type U2 contains:mp3 will show pages that are about U2 and link to MP3 files.

38. Web pages for a specific language

To find results in a particular language, select the language code after the language: keyword.

For example, if you are searching for laptops then type laptops language:en.

39. Web pages from a specific country
Enter the country or region code directly after the loc: keyword. Use a logical OR to include one more language.

For example, to see web pages about wine from the France or Italy, type wine (loc:FR OR loc:IT).

Image results are shown at the bottom of the page.

40. Used Cars
VIN provides protection against buying a used car with hidden problems.
Type the VIN number and hit Search.