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Bing CAN'T SEARCH FOR EXACT STRINGS!?! What am I doing wrong?
Thread poster: Michael Beijer
Michael Beijer
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Nov 12, 2015

OK, I finally tried Bing (I always use Google), but it seems IT CAN'T SEARCH FOR EXACT STRINGS!?! What am I doing wrong?

Michael

PS: I first asked this question on Twitter (https://twitter.com/michaelbeijer/status/664185377868107776 ), but no one replied, so I thought I would try here.

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OK, I finally tried Bing (I always use Google), but it seems IT CAN'T SEARCH FOR EXACT STRINGS!?! What am I doing wrong?

Michael

PS: I first asked this question on Twitter (https://twitter.com/michaelbeijer/status/664185377868107776 ), but no one replied, so I thought I would try here.

PPS: It's also being discussed here: http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18925/quotation-marks-do-not-work-in-bing (no real solutions yet) ▲ Collapse
 
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Are you sure? Nov 12, 2015

Michael Beijer wrote:

OK, I finally tried Bing (I always use Google), but it seems IT CAN'T SEARCH FOR EXACT STRINGS!?! What am I doing wrong?



Don't know if you are doing wrong, but I have not the problem :

http://wikisend.com/download/927458/Moscow.png

Regards

PS - Have a look to the Bing Query Language :
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff795609.aspx




[Modifié le 2015-11-12 11:23 GMT]
 
Meta Arkadia
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Curly? Nov 12, 2015

Adrien Esparron wrote:
...but I have not the problem


No problems here either. Could it be the shape of the quotation marks? An alternative would be to use dots rather than spaces (and no quotation marks):

Mowcow.is.a.beautiful.city

Cheers,

Hans
 
Michael Beijer
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Strange, I must be doing something wrong. Nov 12, 2015

Here's what it looks like on my computer:

In Comodo Dragon:


In Firefox:


In IE11:


Michael
 
Alison MacG
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Possible workarounds? Nov 12, 2015

Location seems to be one issue. Here in the UK, using bing.com or bing.co.uk, I get the same results as you. However, using bing.fr, I can reproduce Adrien's results.

Stop words, such as "a" and "is" within the string seem to be another issue. Sticking with bing.co.uk or bing.com, it is still possible to reproduce Adrien's results using a preceding "+", i.e. +"Moscow is a very beautiful city"

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Advanced search phrases and operators
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Location seems to be one issue. Here in the UK, using bing.com or bing.co.uk, I get the same results as you. However, using bing.fr, I can reproduce Adrien's results.

Stop words, such as "a" and "is" within the string seem to be another issue. Sticking with bing.co.uk or bing.com, it is still possible to reproduce Adrien's results using a preceding "+", i.e. +"Moscow is a very beautiful city"

See:
bing listens
Advanced search phrases and operators
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.
https://binglistens.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/559728-advanced-search-phrases-and-operators ▲ Collapse
 
Michael Beijer
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Wow, thanks for the tip re preceding my search string with a "+" Nov 12, 2015

Alison MacG wrote:

Location seems to be one issue. Here in the UK, using bing.com or bing.co.uk, I get the same results as you. However, using bing.fr, I can reproduce Adrien's results.

Stop words, such as "a" and "is" within the string seem to be another issue. Sticking with bing.co.uk or bing.com, it is still possible to reproduce Adrien's results using a preceding "+", i.e. +"Moscow is a very beautiful city"

See:
bing listens
Advanced search phrases and operators
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.
https://binglistens.uservoice.com/knowledgebase/articles/559728-advanced-search-phrases-and-operators


I suppose the fact that I haven't heard anyone complain about this yet here on the site shows just how many people are actually using Bing. In any case, I will try it out for a week or so, as I am curious what Microsoft are up to.

Michael
 
Meta Arkadia
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On the other hand... Nov 12, 2015

Michael Beijer wrote:
suppose the fact that I haven't heard anyone complain about this yet here on the site shows just how many people are actually using Bing.


... it also shows how tremendously slow vetting is on this forum.

Cheers,

Hans
 


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