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Bing Search Engine
Return More Desirable Search Results by Adding Ignore Words
SUMMARY: Tired of web pages containing particular words or phrases appearing in a Bing search? Create search queries that ignore them.
When performing searches with Bing involving words or phrases that have multiple meanings, you might wish to prevent the results from including certain types of pages. Perhaps a word or phrase has a popular meaning but you want pages related to the alternate one.
Another example is searching for a word or phrase that matches the name of a TV show, sports team, movie, etc. These popular culture references may result in pages in which you have no interest. For example, searching for "bones" may show results relating to the TV show, restaurants, a movie, or other non-anatomical subjects.
To (mostly) prevent certain words or phrases from affecting a Bing search, prefix them with a minus sign. For example, if you want to search for information about sweet potatoes (nutrition information, how to grow them, etc), but you don't care about recipes using the vegetable, you might perform a search for:
sweet potato
However, many of the results deal with recipes. To ignore results with the word "recipes", just prefix it with a minus sign, i.e.:
sweet potato -recipes
You may also want to ignore the singular form of the word:
sweet potato -recipes -recipe
Another example, as mentioned above, is if you want to search for bones. While the following long query will not remove all unrelated results, it is a start:
bones -tv -fox -episodes -film -comic -music -skateboard -steak -cornell
Note that while ignore words will be honored in regards to webpage results, you may still see other types of results such as video, TV episodes, and images containing the ignore words intermixed. Ads also may contain your ignore word(s).
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