Find what you're looking for in less time. Use the following symbols to quickly modify your search term or search function:
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Finds webpages that contain all the terms that are preceded by the + symbol. Also allows you to include terms that are usually ignored. |
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" " |
Finds the exact words in a phrase. |
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() |
Finds or excludes webpages that contain a group of words. |
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AND or & |
Finds webpages that contain all the terms or phrases. |
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NOT or – |
Excludes webpages that contain a term or phrase. |
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OR or | |
Finds webpages that contain either of the terms or phrases. |
Notes:
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By default, all searches are AND searches.
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You must capitalize the NOT and OR operators. Otherwise, Bing will ignore them as stop words, which are commonly occurring words and numbers that are omitted to speed a full-text search.
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Stop words and all punctuation marks, except for the symbols noted in this topic, are ignored unless they are surrounded by quotation marks or preceded by the + symbol.
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Only the first 10 terms are used to get search results.
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Term grouping and Boolean operators are supported in the following preferred order:
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Because OR is the operator with lowest precedence, enclose OR terms in parentheses when combined with other operators in a search.
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Some features and functionality described here may not be available in your country or region.
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