In case you haven’t heard of Bing, it’s a new web search engine from Microsoft that replaces Live Search.

Let me share a few unique search operators in Bing.com that you are unlikely to find in Google or Yahoo. For instance, add hasfeed: to your search query and it will only show links to web pages that offer RSS feeds.

Another useful search operator in Bing is called “contains”. As the name suggests, the “contains” search in Bing lets you find web pages that contain (or link to) a particular file.

For instance, if you looking for MP3 blogs about your favorite artist or band, you can simply type “[artist name] contains:mp3” – the first part of the search query will show you all websites related to the artist while the contains: operator restricts results to pages that also link to MP3 audio files.

Similarly, if you are looking to download PDF forms from a Government website, you can say “tax site:gov.in contains:PDF” – this will return all Tax related pages on the Indian Government portals that link to PDF files.

The contains operator is not to be confused with filetype operator of Google – the former helps you find web pages that link to a particular file while the latter is for search actual files. Bing supports both.

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