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Focus search results

Sometimes, the amount of information in your search results can be overwhelming. To help focus those results to what you really want, create advanced searches in Live Search:

1. Go to http://search.live.com.
2. On the right side of the search box, click Options, and then click Advanced Search.
3. In the Advanced search box, under Find search results that include the following, type the keywords for what you want to find, and then select one of the following options:

   Search terms

   All of these terms: Uses an AND (A search keyword that you can use to find results that contain all the search terms you specify.) operation. Ignores punctuation and stop words (Words that are frequently used, but that do not offer descriptive value to search engines. For example, a, of, and the are considered stop words.) . Any of these terms: Uses an OR (A search keyword that you can use to find results that contain either of the search terms that you specify.) operation. Ignores punctuation and stop words. This exact phrase: Searches for the exact phrase, including punctuation and stop words. None of these terms: Uses a NOT (A search keyword that you can use to find results that don't contain a search term you specify.) operation. The NOT operation groups the terms within parentheses, including punctuation and stop words.

   Site/Domain

   Limit your search to a specific site, such as Microsoft.com, or to a root domain, such as edu, gov, com, net, org. You can also limit your search to country- or region-specific domains, such as uk and de.

   Country/region

   Limit your results to websites from specific countries or regions.

   Language

   Limit your results to specific languages.

4. Click Add to search.
5. When you've finished adding options, click the search button.

Note

You can select any of these options multiple times to create a more powerful search. For example, to search for websites in French and Spanish, click Language, select French, and then click Add to Search. Repeat these steps for Spanish.

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