Here are the top MSN Shortcuts that any savvy MSN should have under his or her belt. You'll find that using these MSN Search Shortcuts will greatly cut down on your MSN search time, as well as make your MSN searches more effective and more efficient.
- contains: Restricts results to sites that have links to the file type(s) you specify. For example, to search for websites that contain links to Microsoft Windows Media Audio (wma) files, type music contains:wma.
- filetype: Returns only web pages created in the file format you specify. Live Search recognizes many extentions including .html, .txt, .pdf, .doc, .xls, and .ppt. For example, to find reports created in PDF format, type your subject, followed by filetype:pdf.
- inanchor:, inbody:, intitle:, inurl: Returns pages that contain the specified term in the metadata, such as the anchor, body, title, or the web address of the site, respectively. Specify only one term per keyword. You can string multiple keyword entries as needed. For example, to find pages that contain msn in the anchor, and the terms spaces and magog in the body, type inanchor:msn inbody:spaces inbody:magog.
- ip: Finds sites that are hosted by a specific IP address (A specific address for a computer on the Internet.) . The IP address must be a dotted quad address. Type the IP: keyword, followed by the IP address of the website. For example, type IP:207.46.249.252.
- language: Returns web pages for a specific language. Specify the language code directly after the language: keyword. For example, to see only web pages in English, type "antiques" language:en. You can also access this function using the Search Builder Language function. For more information about using Search Builder, see Focus search results.
- link: Finds sites that have links to the specified website or domain. This is useful for determining who links to whom. For example, to find pages that contain the word games and that link to Microsoft.com, type games link:microsoft.com.
- linkdomain: Finds sites that link to any page within the specified domain. Use this keyword to determine how many links are being made to a specific page, as well as how those links are made. For example, to see pages that link to Microsoft, type linkdomain:micosoft.com.
- linkfromdomain: Finds sites that are linked from the specified domain. Use this keyword to determine how many links are being made from a specific page, as well as how those links are made. For example, to see pages that are linked from Microsoft, type linkfromdomain:micosoft.com.
- loc:, location: Returns web pages from a specific country or region. Specify the country or region code directly after the loc: keyword. To focus on two or more languages, use a logical OR to group the languages. For example, to see web pages about sculpture from the U.S. or Great Britain, type sculpture (loc:US OR loc:GB). To see a list of language codes that you can use with Live Search, see Country/region and language codes.
- prefer: Adds emphasis to a search term or another operator to help focus the search results. For example, to find results about football, but that primarily pertain to the organization, type football prefer:organization.
- site: Returns web pages that belong to the specified site. To focus on two or more domains, use a logical OR to group the domains. You can use site: to search for web domains, top level domains, and directories that are not more than two levels deep. For example, to see web pages about heart disease from the BBC or CNN websites, type "heart disease" (site:bbc.co.uk OR site:cnn.com).
You can also search for web pages that contain a specific search word on a site. For example, to find web pages about the PC version of Halo on the Microsoft website, type site:www.microsoft.com/games/pc halo.
- feed: Finds RSS (Really Simple Syndication is a publishing format that websites use to easily distribute, or syndicate, content to a wide audience. You can add RSS feeds to an RSS reader to make finding news easier. Some RSS readers are web-based, while other readers are separate downloads that run on your computer.) or Atom feeds on a website for the terms you search for. For example, to find RSS or Atom feeds about football, type feed:football.
- hasfeed: Finds web pages that contain an RSS or Atom feed on a website for the terms you search for. For example, to find web pages on the New York Times website that contain RSS or Atom feeds, type site:www.nytimes.com hasfeed:football.
- url: Checks whether the listed domain or web address is in the Live Search index. For example, to verify that the Microsoft domain is in the index, type url:microsoft.com.
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