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Find used car history with BING

If you want to buy a used car, there’s one simple way to instantly find its history. You guessed right, it’s done by using Bing. Here’s how it works: [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Weather with Bing

You want to know the weather forecast. And you use Bing for search. Ok, you’re one search away from it. Here’s how: [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Convert measurement units with Bing

Convert quickly some measurement units in some other units using Bing. Need to convert units from metric sistem to English customary units (for instance from meters to yards or from kilograms to pounds)? Here’s how: [Read the rest of this entry...]

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Lookup any IP with Bing

Need to lookup an IP? Don’t leave bing, just type in the search box:

IP:[Ip-number] where [Ip-number] is the IP you’re interested in. Here’s an example:

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Remove Bing background image

Bing background image, here’s something different about Bing! For some it’s the colour splash that makes search interesting, for others it’s simply annoying. If it disturbs you, here’s how to remove the image:

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Bing SEO guide updated

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...]

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Bing: how to find web pages that link to files

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...]

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Video Preview in Search Results

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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Enable Bing’s full features

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...]

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How to search with Bing directly from Hotmail

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...]

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