Bing tips and tricks

Bing SEO guide is the official Microsoft guide for SEO with BING, as found on Bing Webmaster center:

The following are official recommendations that might help Bing’s MSNBot (The Bing web crawler, a program that scans websites and indexes their content, such as text, documents, images, and links, for searching.) and other web crawlers (A program that scans websites and indexes their content, such as text, documents, images, and links, for searching. The web crawler used by Bing is also known as MSNBot.) effectively index and rank your website. Bing has also provided a list of techniques to avoid if you want to make sure your website is indexed. [Read the rest of this entry...]

You’re using Bing and want to find documents, pictures, Mp3s linked by web pages. For instance you’re searching for a Powerpoint inside an expert  site. Or you’re searching all the web sites that contain mp3s. Here’s how to: [Read the rest of this entry...]

You use Internet Explorere and Bing and you want to combine the power of the two? It’s simple, Microsoft provides some useful Bing add-ons for Internet Explorer. Here are some of them and the guide to install them: [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bing has been launched more than a month ago. The Bing Add-ons for Firefox help you integrate Bing search with the second most popular browser ont the web. Here are some of the addons: [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bing Video Search helps you decide instantly to click or not some video. All you have to do is hover the mouse cursor over some video to see a short preview. Here’s how:

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Bing has a lot of features. If you’re not from US, chances are some of the features are disabled. Bing will show you a localized version with some neat things missing. Like video preview and so on. You want the whole thing. Here’s how to enable Bing full features: [Read the rest of this entry...]

Bing was recently added to Windows Live Hotmail. It’s very simple. This is the Bing in Hotmail how-to. Use the quick add feature like this: [Read the rest of this entry...]

Google more relevant than Bing by a large margin, a Citigroup study announced. Citigroup conducted a study comparing 200 queries on Google, Yahoo and Bing. The study found that Google is much more relevant than Bing, in returning relevant results. Google returned the most relevant result 71 percent of the time, compared with Bing at 49 percent of the time and Yahoo 30 percent of the time. [Read the rest of this entry...]

These days a lots of comparative studies surfaced, placing Google versus Bing into a multitude of comparations. Catalyst Group conducted an independent usability and consumer preference study (be careful, most “independent” studies are secretly sponsored by one company or the other).   The study included both an eye tracking part and a survey. Here are some of the findings: [Read the rest of this entry...]

Are you superstitious? Microsoft isn’t, since after a month of its launching Bing is the 13th most visited site on the web, according to Compete.com Compete only tracks US visitors. Here are the details of this impressive growth: [Read the rest of this entry...]