Thread: Bing released a list with advanced operators

Bing just released a comprehensive list of advanced operators that can be used when searching for some techie aspects of websites.

What seem interesting are those:

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.
Example

ip:207.46.197.32

Remarks

Prefix-matching is also possible, that is, ip:46 would return the site IP:46.249.252.39 if the latter is in the index.

OR

Only allow search word, phrase or word: in the constraint. Bing implements relaxcount for a 5+ word query by default; that is, the fifth word in a query and subsequent appears do not necessarily appear in results.
Example

cry for you lyrics norelax:September

Remarks

The effect of the syntax in this example is to specify that all returned results must contain september. In the absence of the norelax: operator, since there are 5 words in the query, Bing would augment with a relaxcount=+1, that could return documents that do not contain september.

The whole list can be found here: msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795620.aspx . What are your favourite ones?

As Bing continues to show more improvements...