Advanced search options
Find what you're looking for in less time. Use the following symbols to quickly modify your search term or search function:
| Symbol |
Function |
| + |
Finds webpages that contain all the terms that are preceded by the + symbol. Also allows you to include terms that are usually ignored. |
| " " |
Finds the exact words in a phrase. |
| () |
Finds or excludes webpages that contain a group of words. |
| AND or & |
Finds webpages that contain all the terms or phrases. |
| NOT or - |
Excludes webpages that contain a term or phrase. |
| OR or | |
Finds webpages that contain either of the terms or phrases. |
Notes
- By default, all searches are AND (A search keyword that you can use to find results that contain all the search terms you specify.) searches.
- You must capitalize the NOT and OR operators. Otherwise, Bing will ignore them as stop words (Words that are frequently
used, but that do not offer descriptive value to search engines. For example, a, of, and
the are considered stop words.) .
- 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.
- Only the first 10 terms are used to get search results.
- Term grouping and Boolean operators are supported in the following preferred order:
- parentheses ()
- quotation marks "
- NOT + -
- AND &
- OR |
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