Bing Search Engine - Limit Video Search Results to Particular Sources

SUMMARY: When searching for videos using the Bing search engine, limit video results to particular websites such as Hulu, MSN, or YouTube.

When searching for videos with Microsoft's Bing search engine, you may have noticed that videos may come from a lot of different sources, some you wish to search and others you might wish to ignore. If desired, you can limit the results to a particular source such as Hulu, MSN, or YouTube, or you can choose from several sources.

First, the easy way to choose from one source:

1. Click "Videos" underneath "Explore" from Bing's front page to search for videos, or access Bing's videos search directly via one of the following URLs:

http://videos.bing.com
http://www.bing.com/videos

2. Perform a video search. As an example, search for tonight show.

3. On the left side of the results page, click the plus sign next to "SOURCE" and click a source name such as "aol", "espn", "metacafe", "msn", or "youtube". In this example we'll pick "hulu" to include full episodes in the results.

The results page will change reflecting your choice.

To choose from multiple sources:

Use the site operator, parenthesis, and the logical OR in this format to limit results to multiple websites:

QUERY (site:DOMAIN OR site:DOMAIN)

Let's see some examples to make this easier to understand:

1) Perform the above search but limit the results to YouTube and Hulu:

tonight show (site:youtube.com OR site:hulu.com)

The below provides different results:

tonight show (site:youtube.com OR hulu.com)

2) Search for LeBron James but limit the results to ESPN and the NBA:

lebron james (site:espn.go.com OR site:nba.com)

The below provides slightly different results:

lebron james (site:espn.go.com OR nba.com)

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