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General InformationBing (formerly Live and MSN)
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OverviewBing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search), codenamed Kumo, is the Microsoft's web search engine
Website URLwww.bing.com
Website Submission Yes, www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx
Wikipedia Articleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)
Web Site BlogBng community blog - www.bing.com/community/blogs
Customer Supporthelp.live.com
RankingBing (formerly Live and MSN)
Ranking AlgorithmBing ranking algorithm analyzes webpage content, the number and quality of websites that link to these webpages, and the relevance of the website’s content to keywords.
Search FeaturesBing (formerly Live and MSN)
Audio Search Yes, music.msn.com
Blog Search Yes
Book Search
Career Search Yes, careers.msn.com
Desktop Search Yes, www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/desktopsearch
Dictionary Search Yes
Events Search No
Finance Search Yes, moneycentral.msn.com
Forum Search
Bing (formerly Live and MSN)
Health Search Yes, www.bing.com/health
Image Search Yes, www.bing.com/images
Local Search Yes, www.bing.com/local
Map Search Yes, www.bing.com/maps
Mobile Search Yes, m.bing.com
News Search Yes, www.bing.com/news
Patent Search No
People Search No
Phrase Search Yes
Bing (formerly Live and MSN)
Product Search (Shopping) Yes, www.bing.com/shopping
Questions and Answers Search
Real Estate Search Yes, realestate.msn.com
Recipe Search Yes
Scholar Search No
Search Alerts Yes
Search Creative Commons No
Search in Categorized Directories Yes, specials.msn.com
Search Public Source Code No
Bing (formerly Live and MSN)
Semantic SearchSome results are based on semantic technology from PowerSet which Microsoft purchased in 2008.
Travel Search Yes, www.bing.com/travel
TV Listings Search Yes, tv.msn.com
University Search No
US Government Search No
Vehicles Search Yes, autos.msn.com
Video Search Yes, www.bing.com/videos
Weather Search Yes, weather.msn.com and also as you type "weather" followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country
Search ResultsBing (formerly Live and MSN)
Browser Toolbardownload.live.com/toolbar
Highlights of Relevant Phrases Yes
Cached Pages Yes
Related Searches Yes
Thumbnails Preview No
Translate Searches Yes, www.bing.com/translator
Advanced Search OperatorsBing (formerly Live and MSN)
Logical (Boolean) operations Yes, AND or &, NOT or, OR or |,
Operator [-] - exclude Terms from search result (-). Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word... learn more Yes
Operator [*] - search with wildcard (*)... learn more No
Operator [+] - search exactly as is (+)... learn more Yes
Operator [after:] - search for modified after a given date. For example after:31/12/1999 No
Bing (formerly Live and MSN)
Operator [before:] - search for modified before a given date. For Example before:31/12/1999 No
Operator [inurl:] - restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.... learn more Yes
Operator [link:] - webpages that have links to the specified URL (link:).... learn more Yes
Operator [site:] - search within a whole class of sites (site:).... learn more Yes

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