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Yahoo-Bing Update and the Bing Syntax

Read about the Yahoo-Bing Update on my blog: Powered by Bing.

It's time to look deeper into Bing and its syntax. I have pasted a table below with the Bing advanced operators. (The Yahoo advanced operators will be shortly gone from all of its sites.)

Keyword	Definition	Example
contains:	Keeps results focused on sites that have links to the file types that you specify.	To search for websites that contain links to Microsoft Windows Media Audio (.wma) files, type music contains:wma.
filetype:	Returns only webpages created in the file type that you specify.	To find reports created in PDF format, type your subject, followed byfiletype:pdf.
inanchor:or inbody:or intitle:	These keywords return webpages that contain the specified term in the metadata, such as the anchor, body, or title of the site, respectively. Specify only one term per keyword. You can string multiple keyword entries as needed.	To find webpages that contain msn in the anchor, and the terms spaces andmagog in the body, type inanchor:msn inbody:spaces inbody:magog.
ip:	Finds sites that are hosted by a specific IP address. The IP address must be a dotted quad address. Type the ip: keyword, followed by the IP address of the website.	Type IP:207.46.249.252.
language:	Returns webpages for a specific language. Specify the language code directly after the language: keyword. You can also access this function using the Search Builder Language function. For more information about using Search Builder, see Use advanced search.	To see webpages only in English about antiques, type "antiques" language:en.
loc: orlocation:	Returns webpages from a specific country or region. Specify the country or region code directly after the loc: keyword. To focus on two or more languages, use a logical OR to group the languages.	To see webpages about sculpture from the U.S. or Great Britain, type sculpture (loc:US OR loc:GB). For a list of language codes that you can use with Bing, see Country, region, and language codes.
prefer:	Adds emphasis to a search term or another operator to help focus the search results.	To find results about football but that primarily pertain to the organization, type football prefer:organization.
site:	Returns webpages that belong to the specified site. To focus on two or more domains, use a logical OR to group the domains. You can use site: to search for web domains, top level domains, and directories that are not more than two levels deep. You can also search for webpages that contain a specific search word on a site.	To see webpages about heart disease from the BBC or CNN websites, type"heart disease" (site:bbc.co.uk OR site:cnn.com). To find webpages about the PC version of Halo on the Microsoft website, typesite:www.microsoft.com/games/pc halo.
feed:	Finds RSS or Atom feeds on a website for the terms you search for.	To find RSS or Atom feeds about football, type feed:football.
hasfeed:	Finds webpages that contain an RSS or Atom feed on a website for the terms you search for.	To find webpages on the New York Times website that contain RSS or Atom feeds, type site:www.nytimes.com hasfeed:football.
url:	Checks whether the listed domain or web address is in the Bing index.	To verify that the Microsoft domain is in the index, type url:microsoft.com.