Playing with Bing still. One of the things we use Google for is to find the pages from a single web site. In Google we can use the site:example.com query modifier to return the pages that have been indexed by Google for the domain example.com. Live did not have this functionality but Bing appears to have the site: command.

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Excerpt: You may have seen that Microsoft has re-branded its live search as Bing.com. My first impressions on the name and the design are pretty good. It has a crisp fresh design and  looks a lot better than the tired MSN, Hotmail design which quite frankly after such a long time was just annoying. Bing is a better name. To me it is an onomatopoeia; the sound of an answer found. Depending on which country you access Bing in you will see a different background  and it seems that we also get a different background every day. While the look and feel is…

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Excerpt: The three major search engines: Live, Yahoo and Google have agreed to adopt a new standard to highlight URLs that contain duplicate content. Duplicate content issues often occur when the same pages of content is accessed can be reached by multiple URLs or session IDs, particularly common in e-commerce sites, for example, where the same product might exist in different categories. There was always a concern that this could result in duplicate content penalties. The new attribute value is ‘canonical’ is used with the rel attribute in the links tag. It specifies the location of the page that this is a…