| General Information | Bing (formerly Live and MSN) |
| Company Logo |  |
| Overview | Bing (formerly Live Search, Windows Live Search and MSN Search), codenamed Kumo, is the Microsoft's web search engine |
| Website URL | www.bing.com |
| Website Submission |  Yes, www.bing.com/docs/submit.aspx |
| Wikipedia Article | en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine) |
| Web Site Blog | Bng community blog - www.bing.com/community/blogs |
| Customer Support | help.live.com |
| Ranking | Bing (formerly Live and MSN) |
| Ranking Algorithm | Bing 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 Features | Bing (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 Search | Some 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 Results | Bing (formerly Live and MSN) |
| Browser Toolbar | download.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 Operators | Bing (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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