In this lecture, I would like to show you how you can use Bing search engine to search for people.
Now, as I've said before, using different search engines might help you to find more information.
So you might find a search result on Bing that you were not able to find on Google or Yandex.
In addition to that, Bing has some exclusive search operators that Google and Yandex does not have,
which I will cover in this lecture and in the next lecture.
But for now, we are going to search for Rishi Kabra on Bing.
So the first thing that I'm going to do is I'm going to search for Rishi Kabra and put the name within
two quotation marks.
And as you can see, we were able to get 59,000 search results.
So if I scroll down a little bit I can see Rishi Kabra profile picture.
I'm going to click on it and we can see that this is a SoundCloud account and it was created or appeared
on 2017.
I'm going to open this profile and see what information I can get.
We can read his name, we can see that he's from India and we can see that he was in Hyderabad.
Another thing that we can look at is his social media profiles.
Now we already have his LinkedIn account and Facebook account, but we do not have his Instagram account.
So I'm going to open his Instagram account and we will see that this page is not available anymore.
So he had an Instagram account with the same username that he used on github.com, but I'm going to
copy the URL and put it in my notes.
So I'm going to add the link in here.
And I'm also going to add his SoundCloud URL as well.
And so far we have all of these accounts.
And we have just performed a regular Google and Bing search.
Now, since we know that he is living in Kolkata, I can also search for the keyword or the search term
Kolkata.
And now we have less search results.
When we use Google we got way less search results.
But this is okay for now.
We can obviously scroll down and we can see the document that we were able to see before, and we can
see that his name were also mentioned on this website that I didn't find on Google, and if I went to.
The second page I can see some more search results.
You can see that the.
Third page contains search results from this website.
So what I would like to.
Do is to exclude this search result from appearing on the search engine.
So if I.
Say minus and then the domain name and then hit enter, you will see that we will get more search results.
And this is why I don't like to start using Bing.
It is important to use it.
But I think that Google is the best to start and then go to the other search engines to find any additional
information.
Sometimes when you add additional search operators for some reason, Bing will show you more search
results.
Now another thing that I would like to show you is cached pages.
So I'm going to scroll down and you can see that we have a link in here.
And when you find these three dots you can click on it.
And then you will see that you can click on cached, which means that Bing has cached Cashed or has
a saved copy of this page.
So I'm going to open the cached version.
And you can see that this page appeared on 25th February 2024.
And this is an account from Kolkata, India.
And obviously we do not know whether this is the Rishi you are looking for or somebody else, but we
know that he is a student at that time and he is a web developer.
Coming back to the search results.
Now, what I like to do is when I use Google to find information about a company or a person, and I
find a page that is not saved on Google servers and is not cached on Google, I can copy the title of
the page or the URL and then put it in Yandex and Bing.
And sometimes you will find cached versions of this page on Bing or Yandex.
Next, I would like to show you a search operator called location or LLC.
Now this search operator will help you find web pages from a specific country or region.
For example, if you are searching for someone who is living in India, then you can limit your search
results to display only search results from India.
And this is very helpful.
Now let me show you an example.
Here I'm searching for Rishi Kabra and I'm going to specify the country to be India.
So in is for India I'm going to hit enter.
And now we can see only search results from India.
So first of all we have the document that we found before.
And you can see that the domain name is I n which is an Indian top level domain.
And here as well and here and here.
So these are all Indian websites that ends with I n.
And sometimes you will find reviews, you might find restaurants or hotels etc..
Now if you go to the URL that is attached to this lecture you will find the languages that are supported
by Bing.
Now we can see that India is not in here, but for some reason when I search for India I get a search
result.
Next I would like to show you the language search operator, which will return search results in a preferred
or a specific language.
So if I am searching for reishi cobra and I use the language search operator and then I end to specify
an Indian language, we will see that we will get no search results.
But if I specified another language, for example n for English, then I might get some search results,
as you can see.
So now all the search results are in English.
So to show you a realistic example, I'm going to say Satyaraj.
And since I am living in Germany, I'm going to use the E to display search results in German.
So here we have got 20 search results.
This is a description of my LinkedIn account.
That's why it's not in German.
But if I scroll down a little bit, you will see here that this is in German.
This as well.
For some reason this is not in German, this is also in German.
And all the other search results.
You can see that the description all written in German.