Students and Librarians go Bing! 50 Bing tips for you and the students and librarians in your life too ;)

OnlineColleges.net - 50 Fantastic Bing Tricks for Students & Librarians

“Bing has made quite an entrance in the Internet search world. This new way of searching provides quick and easy shortcuts that don’t always require reading through lists of websites and clicking on each one to find what you want. Check out the following tricks to see how Bing can help students and librarians find the information they need in a snap.

Finding Information

From doing math without a calculator to getting definitions, use Bing to find this information quickly and easily.

1. Use the background image. Hovering over different locations on the background image provides an opportunity to learn facts about the image or related topics.
2. Do math. Enter a math calculation directly into the search box to compute anything from simple math to trig functions

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Research and Collaboration

Bing is great for Internet research and sharing that research for others. Find out how with these suggestions.

1. Save search results. Save your search results to a local folder online to have access to them without having to remember how you performed the search.
2. Share search results. If you have found important information you want to share, email your search results or share via Facebook.
3. Find specific types of files. Use a keyword and "contains: file type" (with file type being the file type you are seeking) to find PDFs, MP3s, and other files

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Images and Videos

Use images and videos easily and more quickly with Bing to find the information you need.

1. Easily find images. The image search on Bing provides many images that are easily scanable.

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Travel

Whether you are going home for the holidays or traveling to the next big conference, use these tips to help facilitate your travel with Bing.

1. Find low air fares. Enter "flights from x to y" (with x and y being the cities of travel) to find low air fares as well as predicted fare trends.
2. Get flight status. Enter your flight number along with "flight status" to immediately find out the status of your flight.

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Mobile

Just because you stepped out of the library or away from class doesn’t mean you can’t still access the benefits of Bing. Find out what you can do with Bing and your mobile.

1. Use their mobile site. The Bing mobile site is specially designed for mobile phone usage.
2. Download the app. From your mobile phone’s browser, go to http://m.bing.com/download/ to download their mobile app.
3. Get mobile with a text. Visit Bing for mobile to enter your phone number and receive a text with the link.

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Is this bing bling? Or just bing fun? Anyway there were a number of Bing searches and features that were new to me.

Now to remember them… oh wait, since I blogged about it all I have to remember is that I blogged about it. That works… ;)

(via LiveSide - The Bing Blog - 50 Bing Tricks for Students and Librarians (and you))