Remember Bing, the search engine Microsoft launched to topple Google? Ok, it didn’t work that way but it still has lots of great features and deserves a second look.

42 Bing Search Engine Tips and Tricks

Here are 25 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the decision-making engine from Microsoft.

1. Add your site on Bing

To add your site on Bing, click on http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

This link sends you to the submit URL page of Bing where you can provide the URL of your blog or website.

2. Area Codes

Area Codes displays the area code or ZIP code. Type area code followed by code. For example, area code 515.

3. Advanced Search Keywords

Using this to find the search results you only what you see. Don’t include a space after the colon in these keywords.

4. Celebrity Tracking

Bing xRank tracks celebrities and ranks them. xRank shows News results, Image results, Video results , biography details, and digg links.

5. Cheap flight tickets

To get the cheap flight deals, enter:

• Deals on specific routes: flights from London to New York
• Deals from a specific city: flights from San Francisco
• Deals to a specific city: flights to Rome

6. Contains parameter refines searches

In Bing, the parameter ‘contains’ tells the search engine to only look for websites that contain that search term. For example

iPhone contains:download

Beatles contains:mp3

Annual Report contains:doc

7. Combine or Excluding words

Use the OR and NOT keywords to combine or exclude words. For example, if you use iphone NOT Green, you will get results for iphone but not for green iphones.

8. Currency Converter

Type ‘convert 100 dollars to euros’ for currency conversion from dollars to euros.

9. Check if your website is listed in Bing.com

To verify that your website is in the index, type url:yoursite.com.

For example, url:ivanwalsh.com returns a single result.

Tip: Check that your robot.txt file allows Bing.com to index your website.

10. Check the number of webpages indexed in Bing.com

Type site:yoursite.com  to see how many pages have been actually indexed in bing.com. For example, site:ivanwalsh.com.

11. DHL and UPS Packages

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

12. Display wallpaper images

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.

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. https://addons.mozilla.org

20. Search Bing.com if outside USA

If you are outside the US, you may not be getting all Bing’s features and only it’s localized version. To view all the options in Bing, which may not be available in your region, go to http://www.bing.com/worldwide.aspx and set English – US as your default region.

21. Hotels

Use the following as examples:

• New York hotels
• hotels in Egypt
• Dublin hotels

22. Hulu Videos

Search for any TV show episode on Bing Videos. Hover the mouse over the video thumbnail to watch a short clip.

• Click on Videos from the Bing Home Page.
• Click on TV Shows from the Explore Pane.
• Search for ‘house’ from the top search box.
• In the Explore Pane, click on ‘Source’ and choose from where you want to see your results.
• To see a full-length, high-quality video, choose Hulu.

23. Job Salary

For example – Type LosAnglelesmarketing manager salary, developer pay in Bangalore, IT Manager pay.

24. Images by Format and Type

Bing can tell the difference between a photograph and an illustration. Use the similar images link when you hover over an image to see similar related images.

25. IP Address lookup

Use Bing to lookup any IP address

IP:[IP Address]

Change [IP Address] with a valid IP, such as the IP address you want to track.

26. Mathematical Equations

Enter the equation that you want to solve, for example:

7+5/2-(45*2)
sqrt 9
sin 11 * 66
13% of 994

27. Preview Search Results

Hover over any search result and a small bar with a bubble appears. If you hover over the bubble, it gives you a preview of the landing page on the site.

28. RSS Feeds from search results

You can save every search on Bing into an RSS feed. This means you can pull the search results into your blog or website and increase your web traffic.

Access the feeds from the browser’s toolbars (or by pointing a feed reader to the search result’s URL) and then add

&format=rss

to the results.

A search for Snagit v 9 would be available as an RSS feed from the following URL

http://www.bing.com/search?q=Snagit+9&go=&qb=1&format=rss

29. Remove 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 quote.

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.

41. Unit Conversion

In the Bing search box, type the quantity, followed by in, followed by the conversion.

For example, type 15 kilometers in miles or 33 degrees F in Celsius.

The operator ‘in’ convert units of measurements for distance, weight, time, volume, and temperature.

42. Change the Wallpaper
Click the icon in the lower right corner to see yesterday’s Bing wallpaper.

Got any favorite features in Bing? Please add them below.

You can track DHL, UPS and other packages by tracking number from inside Bing.

For example, type DHL 123456789

Let me know if this works or not. I dont have any UPS packages to trace so am taking Microsoft at their word.

Has it worked for you?

Bing provides great general search results, relevance, a big index and speed — all of the hallmarks of a good search engine.

However, because sorting through search results can often be time consuming, Bing organizes popular results in a different
way. 

It is designed to help you get the answers you’re looking for without having to guess the right way to phrase a search term.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12205

I had mixed success with this. Let me know what you think.

How to check the number of webpages indexed in Bing.com.Type site:yoursite.com  to see how many pages have been actually indexed in bing.com.

For example, site:ivanwalsh.com.

To verify that your website is in the index, type url:yoursite.com.

For example, url:ivanwalsh.com returns a single result.

Tip: Check that your robot.txt file allows Bing.com to index your website.

If you are outside the USA, you may not be getting all Bing’s features and only it’s localized version.

To view all the options in Bing, which may not be available in your region, visit http://www.bing.com/worldwide.aspx?FORM=WHSE and set English – US as your default region.

To add your site on Bing, click on http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx

This link will direct you to the submit URL page of Bing where you can provide the URL of your blog or website

Last week I took the plunge and downloaded Internet Explorer 8. I have to admit, it’s a lot better than I expected. I now have three browsers on my PC: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Microsoft had put together a comparison chart of Internet Explorer 8 v FireFox and Chrome. Not sure I agree with everything but it made me re-think IE as a browser.

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Security

Internet Explorer 8 claims to have better phishing and malware protection.

Privacy

InPrivate Browsing and InPrivate Filtering help Internet Explorer 8 claim privacy victory.

Ease of Use

Features like Accelerators, Web Slices and Visual Search Suggestions make Internet Explorer 8 easier to use.

Web Standards

It’s a tie. Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium’s CSS 2.1 test cases than any other browser, but Firefox 3 has more support for some evolving standards.

Developer Tools

Debatable. With Internet Explorer 8, there’s no need to install tools separately, and it offers better features like JavaScript profiling.

Reliability

Internet Explorer 8 has both tab isolation and crash recovery features; Firefox and Chrome have one or the other.

Customizability

Sure, Firefox may win in sheer number of add-ons, but many of the customizations you’d want to download for Firefox are already part of Internet Explorer 8.

Compatibility

Internet Explorer 8 is more compatible with more sites on the Internet than any other browser.

Manageability

Neither Firefox nor Chrome provide guidance or enterprise tools.

http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer

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Wired.com Tracking Every Facet of Life, from Sleep to Mood to Pain #2

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Gary Wolf writes in Wired.com that, “two years ago, my fellow Wired writer Kevin Kelly and I noticed that many of our acquaintances were beginning to do this terrible thing to themselves, finding clever ways to extract streams of numbers from ordinary human activities. A new culture of personal data was taking shape.”

The immediate cause of this trend was obvious: New tools had made self-tracking easier.

He adds that much of the data-gathering can be automated, and the record-keeping and analysis can be delegated to a host of simple Web apps.

With new tracking systems popping up almost daily, we decided to create a Web site to track them. Gary has dubbed this project the ‘Quantified Self’.

Read the rest of what Gary has to say. Some very interesting points.

http://www.wired.com/medtech/health/magazine/17-07/lbnp_knowthyself#

If you’re thinking of developing Bing application or want to look under the hood of what’s coming up next on Bing, take a look at these resources.

Bing Services

Bing Services give you programmatic access to Bing data through an application programming interfaces (APIs). This includes Bing API and Bing Maps.

Bing API

The Bing API, V 2.0 provides developers and site managers with a multiple-protocol access to content SourceTypes such as Image, InstantAnswer, MobileWeb, News, Phonebook, RelatedSearch and Web.

Bing Maps SDKs

The Bing Maps SDKs provide documentation for the APIs that power Bing Maps, an online mapping service that enables users to search, discover, explore, plan, and share information about specific locations.

By using traditional road maps, labeled aerial photo views, low-angle high-resolution aerial photos, and proximity searching capabilities, Bing Maps lets you incorporate both location and local search features into Web applications.

• Live Search API, Version 1.1b provides an XML Web service through a SOAP API.
• The Live Search Web Service enables you to submit queries to, and return results from, the Live Search Engine.

These MSDN articles provides information about a variety of technical topics and coding techniques for the Bing or Live Search developer.

Introducing Live Search API Version 2.0 Beta

Creating Custom Error Pages with Live Search

Building Search for Your Web Site with the Windows Live Search Service

Working with Advanced Queries in the Windows Live Search Box

Hacking the Look and Feel of the Windows Live Search Box

The documentation and code samples are available from the software development kit (SDK) sites for Bing Version 2.0 and Live Search, Version 1.1b.

Here are some more Bing tips that you might like.

Ringtones for your mobile phone
You can download Bing-themed ringtones. These are MP3 files to make your phone Bing Bing.

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Yesterdays Wallpaper
Click the icon in the lower right corner to see yesterday’s Bing wallpaper.

Maps
Map addresses using this Bing Maps Accelerator

Maps for Outlook
Internet mapping and Outlook

Translator
Language translation at your fingertips with this Accelerator

Shop and Save
Gives you instant product prices, cashback offers and information and helps you save shopping online (Accelerator)

Surf Canyon
Unleash the power of search like never before

Finance
Get stock quotes from Bing with this Web Slice

Traffic
Get traffic updates from Bing with this Web Slice

Image Search
Search Images with Bing (Accelerator)

Define with Bing
Define words or phrases with Bing (Accelerator)

Weather from Bing
Get weather updates from Bing with this Web Slice

You can download all of these from http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=bing

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.

Bing IP Address lookup

Use Bing to lookup any IP address

IP:[IP Address]

Change [IP Address] with a valid IP, such as the IP address you want to track.

Turn Every Bing search into an RSS feed

You can save every search on Bing into an RSS feed. This means you can pull the search results into your blog or website and
increase your web traffic.

Access the feeds from the browser’s toolbars (or by pointing a feed reader to the search result’s URL) and then add

&format=rss

to the results.

A search for Snagit v 9 would be available as an RSS feed from the following URL
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Snagit+9&go=&qb=1&format=rss

Contains parameter refines searches

In Bing, the parameter ‘contains’ tells the search engine to only look for websites that contain that search term. For
example

iPhone contains:download

Beatles contains:mp3
Annual Report contains:doc
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.

Preview Search Results

Hover over any search result and a small bar with a bubble appears. If you hover over the bubble, it gives you a preview of
the landing page on the site.

Sort Images by format and type
Bing can tell the difference between a photograph and an illustration. Use the similar images link when you hover over an
image to see similar related images.

Track Celebrities
Bing xRank tracks celebrities and ranks them. xRank shows News results, Image results, Video results , biography details, and digg links.

Get the weather forecast

In the search box, type the name of the city followed by weather or forecast.

New York Forecast

Paris weather

Convert one unit to another
In the Bing search box, type the quantity, followed by in, followed by the conversion.

For example, type 15 kilometers in miles or 33 degrees F in Celsius.
The operator ‘in’ convert units of measurements for distance, weight, time, volume, and temperature.

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 quote.

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

Mathematical Equations
Enter the equation that you want to solve, for example,
Calculations:
7+5/2-(45*2)
sqrt 9
sin 11 * 66
13% of 994

Find Hotels in a city

Use the following as examples:
New York hotels
hotels in Egypt
Dublin hotels

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 Get Status.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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Last week I took the plunge and downloaded Internet Explorer 8. I have to admit, it’s a lot better than I expected. I now have three browsers on my PC: Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. Each has its own nice features and flaws. So it was interesting to read what PC World had to say.

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“We found that Internet Explorer 8 performed well, and beat out Firefox 3.0.7 in the majority of our time trials.” This quote comes from Browser Showdown: Internet Explorer 8 vs. Firefox, PC World, 5/19/09.

What does Microsoft have to say about this?

They tackle it head-on.

“Lately, there’s been a lot of talk about Internet Explorer’s speed, security, and adaptability. But many of the claims are comparing older versions of Internet Explorer to competitors’ newest releases.”

Here’s how the latest version of Internet Explorer 8 really compares to the current competition.

To counter this, they’ve put together four myth-busters.

Myth #1: Internet Explorer is slower than Firefox and Chrome.

Fact: In tests, Internet Explorer 8 performs as well or better than Firefox and Chrome.

“Browser speed can be measured in a number of ways, but what matters most is how quickly you’re able to get things done while navigating the Web. After all, 80% of online activities are based around navigation.”

Internet Explorer’s Accelerator, Web Slice, Smart Address Bar, and Visual Search features make it faster, safer, and easier to do what you need to do on the Web.

In the white paper, “Improving Consumer Use of the Web, Speed and Ease in the Real World #1, the chapter on Communicating and Multitasking without Disruption raises the following point:

“Multitasking is a very common behavior, where many Web activities are happening at the same time in parallel sessions. A teenager might be researching political events of the 1960s for a school project, and, at the same time, be on Facebook, using Instant Messenger, watching a YouTube video and checking her Web mail.

In the past, if you clicked on a link in an email that led to an unstable Web site, it could crash or stall the entire browser, including other open tabs.

With Internet Explorer 8, if a Web page causes a crash, you might not notice it.

Unlike previous versions of Internet Explorer and other browsers, the disruption caused by an unstable site is minimal and is handled gracefully.

Because the browser’s frame and tabs run as separate, isolated processes, if something causes one tab to crash or stall, only that tab is affected.

Tabs that crash are automatically restored and reloaded—in most cases, without needing to login to a Web site again.

Furthermore, if you are entering information on a Web page (such as filling out a form) when a tab crashes, Internet Explorer 8 will recover it when it reloads the page.

And in the event that the browser crashes unexpectedly, the entire session (including all tabs) is restored. In summary, because of these Internet Explorer 8 advances, the browser itself remains stable and other tabs remain unaffected; thereby, minimizing any disruption.

Microsoft also add that Firefox and Chrome advocates cling to micro-benchmarking page load claims to measure browser speed.

But in most cases, these differences can only be viewed by slow-motion video captures, and they just don’t represent real world examples. If you’re still hung up on millisecond page load times to gauge performance, watch this video for a head-to-head comparison.

Video: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/internet-explorer

Myth #2: Internet Explorer is less secure than Firefox.

Fact: Research proves that Internet Explorer 8 catches almost twice as much malware than the competition. That’s “less secure?”

Internet Explorer was the first browser to integrate features that protect you against phishing and malware, and the first to embed domain highlighting, Cross-Site scripting protection, InPrivate filtering.

It involves a lot of technical jargon, but the point is, Internet Explorer 8 is the only browser to offer this level of security right out of the box.

Since the Beta 2 release last spring, SmartScreen filter has blocked over 8 million malware and phishing scams, and projections show that it’s on target for over 1 million blocks per day.

Research shows that Internet Explorer 8 catches almost twice as much malware as its closest competition.

Microsoft also make the point that “with a Security Response Center and 24/7 phone support, Internet Explorer 8 has the ability to respond faster than any other browser when a new attack is released into the wild. What other browser can say that?”

To see all of the nitty-gritty details, read this security whitepaper or check out this NSS Labs study.

http://download.microsoft.com/download

http://nsslabs.com/anti-malware/browser-security

Myth #3: Firefox is a more adaptable browser than Internet Explorer.

Facts: Internet Explorer 8 offers almost all of the features the most popular add-ons in Firefox have, and you’re able to personalize your browser in a way that saves you time and research.

FWIW: There are more than 1,700 Internet Explorer 8 add-ons available at the Add-ons Gallery, including add-ons, Accelerators, Web slices, and Visual Search plug-ins for your browser, including Facebook, Amazon, and eBay.

Myth #4: Internet Explorer doesn’t support Web standards.

Fact: Internet Explorer 8 passes more of the World Wide Web Consortium’s test cases than any other browser.

In addition to passing more of the official CSS 2.1 test suites than any other browser, Microsoft develops and contributes thousands of new tests for the consortium.

But what does that really mean?

It means that Microsoft put significant effort into make sure sites still work, even if they’re designed for older versions of Internet Explorer, by giving users a Compatibility View button.

I’ve been impressed with IE 8.

What do you think?

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The more I used Bing, the more it impresses me. This free plugin lets you add 3D to your Bing maps.

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Bing Maps 3D brings you another step closer to knowing “what it is like out there”. You can search, browse, and organize

local information viewed in three dimensions, just the way it exists in the real world.

This enables you to more effectively find the data that is relevant to you, making Bing Maps more useful than ever.

System Requirements

• Supported Operating Systems: Windows Vista; Windows XP
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6, Windows Internet Explorer 7 or later, or Firefox 2.0 or later
• 250 MB or more hard disk space
• A 1 GHz processor (2.8 GHz or faster recommended)
• 256 MB of system memory (1 GB recommended)
• 32 MB video card (256 MB recommended) that supports Microsoft DirectX 9
• High speed or broadband Internet connection

Instructions
1. Click the Download link to start the download.
2. Do one of the following:
a. To start the installation immediately, click Open.
b. To copy the download to your computer for installation at a later time, click Save.
3. Double-click Setup.exe to install Bing Maps 3D.

Download from: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/

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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.
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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.

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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.

We have gathered 50 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the new search engine from Microsoft. Here are tips 21-30.

20. Get all of Bing.com if outside USA

If you are outside the US, you may not be getting all Bing’s features and only it’s localized version.

To view all the options in Bing, which may not be available in your region, go to http://www.bing.com/worldwide.aspx and set English – US as your default region.

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21. Hotels

Use the following as examples:

New York hotels
hotels in Egypt
Dublin hotels

22. Hulu Videos
Search for any TV show episode on Bing Videos. Hover the mouse over the video thumbnail to watch a short clip.

• Click on Videos in Bing.
• Click on TV Shows from the Explore Pane.
• Search for ‘house’ from the top search box.
• In the Explore Pane, click on ‘Source‘ and choose from where you want to see your results.
• To see a full-length, high-quality video, select Hulu.

23. Job Salary
For example, type LosAnglelesmarketing manager salary, developer pay in Bangalore, IT Manager pay.

24. Images by Format and Type

Bing can tell the difference between a photograph and an illustration.

Use the similar images link when you hover over an image to see similar related images.

25. IP Address lookup

Use Bing to lookup any IP address

IP:[IP Address]

Change [IP Address] with a valid IP, such as the IP address you want to track.

26. Mathematical Equations

Enter the equation that you want to solve, for example:

7+5/2-(45*2)
sqrt 9
sin 11 * 66
13% of 994

27. Preview Search Results

Hover over any search result and a small bar with a bubble appears.

If you hover over the bubble, it gives you a preview of the landing page on the site.

28. RSS Feeds from search results

You can save every search on Bing into an RSS feed.

This means you can pull the search results into your blog or website and increase your web traffic.

Access the feeds from the browser’s toolbars (or by pointing a feed reader to the search result’s URL) and then add

&format=rss

to the results.

Eg:  A search for Snagit v 9 would be available as an RSS feed from the following URL
http://www.bing.com/search?q=Snagit+9&go=&qb=1&format=rss

29. Ringtones for your mobile phone
You can download Bing-themed ringtones. MP3 files to make your phone go Bing Bing! Download BingTones for your phone.

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.

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.

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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.

Know any more Bing tips?

Here are some useful resources if you want to develop a Bing application.

• Create an AppID
• API Basics / API documentation
• Download the Bing Software Development Kit
• Forums / Blog

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1. Webpage error toolkit
2. Windows Live Dev
3. Webmaster center
4. Microsoft Translator API

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So far, we have gathered 50 tips and tricks to get the most from Bing, the new decision-making engine from Microsoft. Here are the first 10. 1. Add your site on Bing To add your site on Bing, click on http://www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx This link will direct you to the submit URL page of Bing where you can provide the URL of your blog or website. [ad#adc-2] 2. Area Codes Area Codes displays the area code or ZIP code. Type area code followed by code. For example, area code 515. 3. Advanced search keywords Using advanced keywords to find the search results you only what you see. Don’t include a space after the colon in these keywords. 4. Celebrities Tracking Bing xRank tracks celebrities and ranks them. xRank shows News results, Image results, Video results , biography details, and digg links. 5. Cheap flight tickets To get the cheap flight deals, enter: Deals on specific routes: flights from London to New York Deals from a specific city: flights from San Francisco Deals to a specific city: flights to Rome [ad#adc-2] 6. Contains parameter refines searches In Bing, the parameter ‘contains’ tells the search engine to only look for websites that contain that search term. For example iPhone contains:download Beatles contains:mp3 Annual Report contains:doc 7. Combine or Excluding words Use the OR and NOT keywords to combine or exclude words. For example, if you use iphone NOT Green, you will get results for iphone but not for green iphones. 8. Currency Converter Type ‘convert 100 dollars to euros’ for currency conversion from dollars to euros. 9. Check if your website is listed in Bing.com To verify that your website is in the index, type url:yoursite.com. For example, url:ivanwalsh.com returns a single result. Tip: Check that your robot.txt file allows Bing.com to index your website. 10. Check the number of webpages indexed in Bing.com Type site:yoursite.com  to see how many pages have been actually indexed in bing.com. For example, site:ivanwalsh.com.

Here are 10 Bing plugins that you can add to Internet Explorer, including Maps, Finance, Definitions, Power Searching and other web slices.

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Bing Maps

Map addresses using this Bing Maps Accelerator

Bing Translator

Language translation at your fingertips with this Accelerator

Shop and Save with Bing Shopping

Gives you instant product prices, cashback offers and information and helps you save shopping online (Accelerator)

Surf Canyon

Unleash the power of search like never before

Finance from Bing

Get stock quotes from Bing with this Web Slice

Traffic from Bing

Get traffic updates from Bing with this Web Slice

Bing Maps for Outlook

Internet mapping and Outlook

Bing Image Search

Search Images with Bing (Accelerator)

Define with Bing

Define words or phrases with Bing (Accelerator)

Weather from Bing

Get weather updates from Bing with this Web Slice

Download: http://www.ieaddons.com/en/search/?search=bing