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Tweak Bing Search Engine To Get Effective Search Results

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Bing Search engine is a good Google alternative and people want to extract utmost use from it.Here are some simple tweaks for Bing search engine to get effective results for you search queries on Bing.

You can tweak a little of the search engine by adding some keywords to your search query to enhance your search results. The principle behind this is that we enter some keywords which is recognised by the search engine as commands and this tweaks the search engine. Here is a list and the uses of some such keywords.

1) AND (&)- This combines two or more queries that you enter. For example, if you enter Michael Jackson + dead it will combine those keywords and gives you the search results. You may wonder that it is also the same if you enter it without AND command. This is because AND command is set as the default by the search engines.

2) OR (|)- This command would help you to get

webpages that contains either the "first keyword" or the "second keyword" but not both.

3) NOT- Excludes the term that is proceeded by NOT command. For example, if you type "michael NOT dead", then you will get the results only for "Michael" and not for "Michael dead".

4) " " - It includes the webpages that contains the exact phrases. For example if you type, ""Michael is great"", then you would get the

webpages that contains only that particular phrase.

These were some of the simple keywords. in order to get more power over the search engines use the following ones:

1) contains.(file extension) - This helps you to find videos, images and other files easily. The use of this command is, it returns the webpages that contains the extensions that your search query has. For example, if you type "images contains.jpg", it would show you the webpages that contains only the .jpg extension images.

2) site: (sitename) - This is a command well-known to everybody. This helps to search in a particular site. For example, if you enter, "site:http://www.tweakdaddy.blogspot.com/ Google", then you would get the pages of this blog that contains the word "Google"

3) translate : It helps you to translate particular words or phrases directly to the other languages.

4) location or loc - This helps you to search for the webpages with location filter, i.e., if you type "Google (loc:US)", you would get results that contain the keyword "Google" from USA.

5) url: - This is a command that helps you to check whether a URL is present in the search engine or not.

Add MS Bing Custom Search Engine Into Your Website | Bing SearchBox

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Most of the websites we come across uses Google as it customised search engin

e. Now, Here comes an alternative for this search option. MS Bing also now provides the search tool for your website. Here is a clear way of how to set up a Bing SearchBox.

1) To add Bing search to your website click here or go to Bing searchbox page.

2) You can access two types of search options. a) Basic SearchBox, b) Advanced SearchBox.

A basic search box is the one with which it displays the search results in the Bing website. A Advanced search box is the one in which the results are sh0wn on your own website.

3) After selecting any of the one, you will have to enter the sites through which you want the engine to search.

4) The next part is the formatting part, i.e., to customise the look and size of your search engine tool.

5) You will get the code for this. You can copy it and paste it in your blog's template.

Add Bing Search In Google Chrome

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You can now add Bing search in Google Chrome. This is a very easy task to do. If you just want a search box for Bing in the "new tab page" then all you have got to do is press "Tab" after you type the domain name in the address bar.

If you want to make it as the default search engine then click on the "customise Google chrome" option and select "options". There go to the tab, "basics". Under that you wiil find Google as the default search engine. Click on "Manage" .Change it to bing.com by selecting the bing.com in the "other search engines list". This is possible only if you had pressed "tab" in the address bar as I had told previously. If you have not done that either do it or copy the following URL and place it in the URL box that is to be filled while adding the search engine.

URL: http://www.bing.com/search?q=%s&go=&form=QBLH&filt=all

So, after pasting this click on add button and you will get the Bing search engine. Click on "Make Default" to make it default.

Here u\is a way to add Bing search in Opera 10 beta

Top 6 Sites To Check The Google And Alexa Pageranks For Any Site

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Blogging becoming more easier and easier in these days there are lots of bloggers emerging in the cyberworld. The competition between the bloggers is rising so much that it is very much necessary to know the position of a blog on the web. This is the main reason for the start of ranking the pages. The two main page rankers are Alexa and Google. These are the two main tools that are used by the bloggers to know their position on the web. So, this was about the need for the bloggers. Now coming to the counterpart, the readers too need the stastics of a blog. They too are very eager to know about the complete statistics of a blog. Many blog owners are not ready to post or publish their traffic details to the public. Such people can browse these sites to know the complete stats of a website.

How do these sites calculate the statistics?

These sites calculate the statistics of a blog or a website by considering the two main factors i.e., Google PageRank and Alexa PageRank. Apart from these it also calculates on the basis of no. of links that point towards a particular site.

How and for whom is this useful??

Firstly, as I told earlier it is useful for the curious people who want to know the statistics of a website. Secondly, for the advertisers. Advertisers too want the statistics of a blog to put their adverts and they always look for higher traffic websites.

So finally, here are the list of the sites that will help you knowing the rank stats and traffic information about a blog.

1) Quark Base

This a website for the people who are striving hard to get the latest updated information and complete statistics about a blog. Or to be more specific this is a tool for the advertisers. This gives what is called the bio-data of the blog also the contact information and also about the feeds and also a great analysis of the site's traffic.

2) sitelogr.com

This is a very good site for knowing the ranks like world rank, Google PageRank or Alexa rank. This gives you a clear map about the Alexa ranking and also the similar sites with near ranks for the respective website. A great tool for overview of a website's traffic.

3) The Google PageRank

As the name itself says it gives you the information about the Google PageRank. It also enables the website owners to embed their PageRank notifier in their website.

4) StatBrain.com

This is a site that shows the average visits to a particular site. This also works well for blogs that use sub-domains.

5) The Alexa PageRank

It gives you a overview of a site's traffic like site's linking in, the locations of the visits and also the average visit per day etc.

6) Google Chrome Fans

This is a site dedicated to google chrome fans. This gives you a addon for the Google chrome and also live checker of Google an Alexa PageRank.

Check All Places On Web That Has Your Site's Link With Google | A Google Tweak

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Web is an unimaginably great space which you can't even imagine. It grows so rapidly that once you enter a name on the web you cannot delete it again. So, news spreads so rapidly that the name you entered would have circled this whole globe in 1 to 2 hours. If a name could spread so fast then what about a blog or a website. It would have grown so large that you can't imagine it.

So, how to search for the links that are placed on the web in millions of places?? Here is the way.

We all know that Google is the only search king that has the most powerful searching capacity. Then let's use Google for our work. Let's say you have a website named "www.mydomain.com".You would type the keyword as "www.mydomain.com" or "mydomain.com". This would give you either the links that are named only as "www.mydomain.com" in the first case or "mydomain.com" in the second case. Google actually takes these two URLs i.e., "www.mydomain.com" and "mydomain.com" as two different URLs. So in order to access both the URLs here is a simple tweak I found with Google. Instead of typing either as "mydomain.com" or "www.mydomain.com" you could type in as "*.mydomain.com". This would tell the Google to search both the domain names. Here asterisk (*) acts as a wildcard in searching for the domain name.

Maybe you don't find a lot of difference with this tweak but I surely say that there are subtle differences to the search you make.

Google Translator Has Added a New Language | Persian

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Google translator is one of the hottest topic right now on th

e web. It's one of the latest developed application of Google. Google constantly upgrades all of its applicatons and this time it has added a new languge to the Google translator, Persian language.

You can now translate Persian language into any other language or any other language into Persian. This is currently the Alpha version and may breakdown sometimes but Google will try as soon as possible to fix it. It is a little slow as it is a new addition and there are many bugs but still its great and worth a try. :)

Watch Your Visitors LIve and Online Using populatetheweb

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Blogs with high traffics put their web traffic stats on their blog to boast about their blogs infront of other visitors. They show the recent visitor name and photo or just the list of their places. Here is a tool that will help these boasters to get more advantage of their traffic.

Populatetheweb.com offers the bloggers a tool that helps them to show-off their traffic in a more innovative way. The tool is called "webbymap". This provides a map in which the it shows the locations of the visits the second they enter into your site. This uses what is called Geo- technology. You have complete power to change whatever options or preferences you like. For example, if you don't want sounds, then you can disable sounds and also the markings of the visitors location can be changed. This is a free widget, which you can add into your site.

Note:This is free because it's a basic version and it shows a small ad beside the map. However, to get higher version you have to pay a certain amount.

Use Wikipedia More Effciently Using Powerset | A Microsoft Online Tool

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Searching through Wikipedia is often very cumbersome. One has to type the exact keyword or the title of the page being searched. So this often makes it a little useless. The other thing is that Wikipedia is very slow in loading.... I mean in slow connections. So this also is a setback. Powerset helps you to overcome these setbacks.

What is Powerset??

Powerset is a online search engine hosted by Microsoft. To be more specific it is a Wikipedia search engine and this helps people to navigate through the Wikipedia article easily even by typing long keywords which is not possible in Wikipedia.

The next feature is its unique feature of listing the information. Let me tell you about this by giving an example, if you enter "Google" in the search box you will get a intro to the article and then it will give you a tabular column. In this tabular column there will be related information about Google like 1) Used 2) Offered 3) Acquired. The first one means info about the things used by Google. The second one, in a similar way gives you the results about the thing that are offered by Google. The third one tells about the things that are acquired by the Google. This helps you to analyse the Wikipedia articles more efficiently.

Moving on to the next feature, The Search Panel: After you enter into the Wikipedia article you will get a panel on the right side. Here you can see the contents of the wikipedia page. This panel remains on the window screen even while scrolling to help users for easy navigation.

You can also search for the facts that are present in the page by going to the "factz" tab at the top. You get all the facts arranged in a tag like structure. You can look for these facts in the articles by clicking on them. For your easy navigation navigation you can set the panel to the option "show facts".

Here is a video tutoral:

So, this feature really helps you to get a thorough view of Wikipedia so much that you may not have got it in the Wikipedia itself!!!

Note: When you search for anything in Bing then you will get all your keywords highlighted which does not happen usually.

Check Availability of Usernames In The Social Bookmarking and Other SItes Under One roof

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Fed up of searching for the username in many social sites?? Want to know where is the availability of your desired usernames?? Then here is a simple tool that helps you to check the username availability in almost all social sites.

The tool I am talking about is the NameChk.com. It gives you a complete list of 122 sites and you can just check the username availability in all these sites within 8 seconds. This helps you to improve your business by choosing the correct name and checking where it is available.

Apart from just giving you the availability of usernames it also gives a brief description of the sites. This is very helpful for the new users as it gives a simple description of all the sites. It also has a option to look at the profiles of the users that are already registered.

For example, If you type "tweakdaddy" in the search box, you will get a notification saying that it is "taken" and if you click on that it will take you to my blog. If the name is not registered you will fall into the home page of respective sites you click.Thus. it helps the people to save a lot of time.

Bing Provides Seach Challenge Between Itself And Google | Bing VS Google

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Microsoft Bing helps the users to compare the results they get in Bing with Google. This is called as the search challenge and it helps the visitors to analyse the information they get from Bing and Google.

The Bing's decision engine has launched a tools that is called as the "Search Challenge" that provides two windows: 1) The Google Search Engine 2) The Bing Search Engine.

You can search for the information about the topics that are provided in the tabular column or write your own search query in both the search engines. This helps you to analyse the results that you get from the Bing Search Engine as well as the Google Search Engine.

You can look at the way it is organised for the people to analyse:

Google Translator Toolkit Has Intergrated Wikipedia And Knol

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Google translator is now integrated with wikipedia and knol. You can translate any Wikipedia article into your own language or any other language you want within seconds.

This is a new addition to the google translator. It also adds some more file formats like word document and .txt formats too. You can translate and even save the document online. It also enables you to share your translated documents. This means that others can view your translated documents. You can set the visibility to "everyone" or specific group.

When you save your documents in sharing, when others search a transaltion of similar kind then they need not do the same work again and again.

So, Google becoming so developed it looks as if we have a desktop on the net.

Alternatives For All The Sites That Are Blocked In China

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The Great Firewall of China (often known as GFC) haas blocked many popular social networking sites. The China government "Love" has also ordered the computer vendors to add web blocking softwares to the computers. So, Chinese government becoming so strict, there is no other way like hacking etc. I have brought some of the sites as alternatives to the sites that are blocked by GFC.

First let me give bring to your knowledge about the sites that are blocked in China. Here is the list and its alternatives:

Youtube - Metacafe
Blogspot - Wordpress
Hotmail - Gmail, Yahoo! mail
Twitter - Digg, delicious
Plurk - Tumblr
Webshots - Photobucket
Wretch - Photobucket, Tumblr

So, These are some of the list of alternatives for the sites that are blocked in China.

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