SUMMARY: Limit your MSN Search results to webpages written in a particular language.

SUMMARY: Perform more powerful queries with MSN Search by filtering results containing certain unwanted keywords.

When performing searches with MSN Search involving words that have multiple meanings, you might wish to prevent the results from including webpages matching the word’s alternate meaning. There are also times where searching for a keyword or phrase brings up webpages involving the word’s most popular use, but not what you need at a particular time.

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

SUMMARY: Ask MSN Search to heavily factor a webpage’s modification date in the search results ranking.

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SUMMARY: Find webpages using MSN Search that link to multimedia or other document types.

There may be times where you need to find pages that contain links to files of a particular document or multimedia type. For example, you may want websites:

* relating to taxes, containing PDF files of tax documents
* relating to Sean Connery, containing links to Real Audio or Real Video multimedia files

To perform these kinds of searches with MSN Search, you can use the “contains:” keyword, followed by the file type that you wish websites to link to.

For the first example, let’s look for webpages with “1040″ (USA income taxes) containing PDF links:

1040 contains:pdf

Now, to look for webpages mentioning Sean Connery that link to multimedia files playable via RealPlayer:

“sean connery” contains:ram

SUMMARY: Find a word’s definition with MSN Search.

Need to know the meaning of a word and don’t have a dictionary handy? You can use MSN Search for quick definitions. In your search query, just type in “define ” followed by the word of your choice and press the “Search” button. For example, to define the word “RAM”, type in:

define ram

and press the “Search” button.

Or, alternatively you can just type in the word you want to define, then click the green pull-down arrow next to “Search” and click “Look up Word”.

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SUMMARY: Webmasters – find out who links to your website by using MSN Search.

Curious to see who links to your website? You can perform the following MSN Search query to get a synopsis of who placed a hyperlink to your website. Note that this search is not all-inclusive of the web but should give you a good idea of your website’s popularity:

link:WEBSITE_URL

For example, to see who links to yahoo.com, enter this search query:

link:yahoo.com

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SUMMARY: Scan for song, album, and artist information with MSN Search.

Looking for information about a particular song, album name, or artist? Enter the query into MSN Search. Then, click the pull-down next to the “Search” button and choose “Music”.

Your query will be sent to “MSN Music” where you can find more information about songs, including the duration, artist, album name, and a song rating given by the MSN Community. Depending>

SUMMARY: Not finding the Internet search results you want? Consider using MSN Search.

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