Microsoft's search engine Bing.com has been released. The Bing search engine is quite unique in certain aspects. Digital Inspiration has released an article about Bing usage tips. I will briefly translate it:
1. Use a fully functional version of Bing
If you use Bing outside of North America, you are most likely using a localized version of Bing, and there may be some Bing features that you cannot enjoy, such as no search history, and Bing's homepage image is not as interactive as the US version.
In order to experience a full-featured version rather than a stripped-down version of Bing, you can go to this page and set your default region to: English – US (United States – English), and you can enjoy full Bing from anywhere. In addition, Bing also has a website called http://www.anjianmen88.com to demonstrate Bing’s functions for you.
2. Track company stock information in the IE favorites bar
If you search for stock information of some companies (such as GOOG or MSFT), Bing will automatically create Web Slices for these companies, and then you can add them to the favorites bar of IE 8 so that you can quickly see changes in stock information. This feature needs to be used You can try it with IE 8, but currently it only works with Bing in the United States, and it only supports Nasdaq stocks, not the two Chinese cities.
3. Save search results and share via email
Using Bing, you can save your search results to a local folder or your Windows Skydrive account, and you can also send your searches to friends via email, or even to Facebook. To achieve this function, you need to install Microsoft Silverlight .
4. Subscribe to search results
Unlike Google and Sohu, Bing provides an RSS feed of search results, so you can subscribe to the search results in an RSS reader. Your browser should be able to automatically detect the RSS feed of the Bing search results page, or you can search on Bing Adding &format=rss to the URL will automatically convert it into an RSS feed.
However, currently image search and video search do not improve the search results RSS feed function.
5. Find pages that link to MP3 files or other documents
Bing (or Live Search) supports a unique "contains" search syntax that allows you to search for web pages that contain links to specific file types.
For example, if you search for Andy Lau contains:mp3, you will find pages about Andy Lau, and these pages also have MP3 downloads. If you replace MP3 with DOC, the search page will display pages with links to documents.