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Bing Search Engine – Tips and Tricks 11 – 20

June 11th, 2009 · View Comments · How To

We have gathered 50 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. Here are tips 11-20.

11. DHL and UPS Packages
Track DHL, UPS and other packages by tracking number. For example, type DHL 123456789.

12. Display wallpaper images

If you’re a fan of Bing’s background wallpaper, you’ll like this!

You can display Bing’ wallpaper images in its Image search results.

Search for a term in Bing image search and then click on the Size category in the left sidebar.

This automatically display various size filters including an option for wallpaper. This display only images that have the exact size of the computer screen resolution.

13. Exact phrase
To search for exact phrases, enter the search words within quotation marks. For example, “natural asthma remedy”.

14. Export Session History to SkyDrive

Session History records the sites you visited within a single browser session for 48 hours.

You can also save searches to your Windows Live SkyDrive folders using My Search Folders view.

Tip: You can also send your search queries by email or publish them on your Facebook account via Bing.

  • Click the Manage link under the previous search queries at the bottom of the Explore Pane.
  • In the History Management page, browse through past searches and identify the query you’re looking for
  • Click on the link to pick up where you left off.
  • To save a search, click Save and Share on the right of the screen.
  • Check the boxes next to the results you want to save and click Save.
  • Create a new folder to save the search or sign in with Windows Live ID and save the results to your Windows Live SkyDrive.

15. Find Organizations
To find results about golf but that primarily pertain to the organization, type golf prefer:organization.

16. Find Blogs
To see blogs from the BBC websites, type blogging (site:bbc.co.uk) .

17. Find RSS feeds
To find RSS feeds about iphone, type feed:iphone.

18. Find RSS feeds of particular website
To find webpages on the New York Times website that contain RSS feeds, typesite:www.nytimes.com hasfeed:iphone. ‘hasfeed:’

Finds webpages that contain an RSS feed on a website for the terms you search for.

19. Firefox Plugin for Bing
Bing provides great general search results, relevance, a big index and speed — all of the hallmarks of a good search engine.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12205

However, because sorting through search results can often be time consuming, Bing organizes popular results in a different
way, designed to help you get the answers you’re looking for without having to guess the right way to phrase a search term.

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  • redcrew
    Thanks for the tips! Really helpful. Guess I'm missing something obvious, but there is no "Manage Link" option at the bottom of the Explore pane. I've yet to find out how to Save a Search. Can't find any options for Save and Share.
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