Use the full version of Bing

While we’re waiting in Australia for all the features of Bing to come our way, here’s how you can use the full version (United States – English) by going to www.bing.com/worldwide.aspx. 1. Use the full version of Bing If you are using Bing outside North America, chances are that you seeing a localized version of [...]

Aussies can Bing a search

In Australia, we can now Bing (www.bing.com) our searches. At the time of writing, we Aussies are missing the left-hand pane to refine searches (these items are still above the search text input box). Compare with the US version: Give Bing a try (it’s faaaasssstttt….). Start by searching your name . ———– Follow webDotWiz on [...]

Live image search – facial recognition, b&w, portrait

You can now search for images using three new filters:   face filtering, e.g. phil collins filter:face portrait filtering, e.g. phil collins filter:portrait black and white filtering, e.g. phil collins filter:bw For the time being, we ve got to manually enter the filter: bit of the search but apparently that’s going to change. When you’ve done a [...]

Live Search Books now available

Live Search has expanded to Live Search Books (http://books.live.com) so you can now search books (mostly out-of-copyright ones) in various libraries around the world. Libraries currently searched are: Cornell University The American Museum of Veterinary Medicine The British Library The New York Public Library The University of California The University of Toronto Others will be added lately. [...]

Put a Live Search box on your own site

The Live Search team announced the other day that we webmasters can add a Windows Live Search box to our own site. It’s easy to do – there’s a basic version and an advanced version, the latter allowing visitors to your site to either search your site or search the web. As well, you can [...]

Try this – Live search

1. Go to http://www.google.com/ (just click the link to open a new browser window) 2. Type in "search" (without the quotes) 3. Click the "I’m Feeling Lucky" button. via Nigel Parker. (Also posted on Living on Waranga Basin)   Technorati tags: Google, search

Search macros speed up your searching

You want to search the web for some video games. Normally you’d go to your search page, say Live Search (search.live.com), and type in "video games" (using quote marks tells the search engine we’re looking for both words together on web pages), and sit back while a few million results are returned – then you’ve [...]

Live search is now… yep, you guessed it… live

Several Windows Live services have moved from beta/trial version to full release version – Live Search (search.live.com) is one of them. Firstly, search.live.com is just one way to get to Live Search. You also have the choice of going to your personalised Live.com page (www.live.com) and choosing Search only from the top right corner. Alternatively, if [...]

Windows Desktop Search version 2.6.5

Windows Desktop Search (WDS) has been updated to version 2.6.5. If you’re running IE7 beta 2 preview, installing WDS will require the removal of MSN Search Toolbar. However, you’re then able to install the Windows Live Toolbar which is a refinement of the MSN Search toolbar. Live Toolbar has the phishing filter, the same links [...]

Search Preview Add-in for MSN Search Toolbar

Another add-in for your MSN Search toolbar and one that webDotWiz will make use of.   The Search Preview Add-in adds a thumbnail of the site alongside each search result. Roll your mouse over the thumbail to get an enlarged view of the web page.   You can download the trial version from the MSN [...]