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update-bing-view-calendar-month
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title: : Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise.In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-monthSince then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were.Solution: add " -ai" to your query.E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox)Type this into your Firefox address bar:b 2026 sep -aior directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -aiand press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month.Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024:* Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026.* Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026* 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th).* < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month* [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the weekAmazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar month display.…
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encoded: Update on Bing use-case: quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display with new features and without Copilot noise. In 2024, I wrote about a use-case for Bing where it vastly outshines all other search engines. https://tantek.com/2024/287/t3/bing-use-case-calendar-month Since then, Bing has added “Copilot” LLM generated results to the top of search results by default, and unfortunately they add zero value to calendar month searches and displays. Worse, Copilot’s “summary” can often be long enough to push the actual calendar month display “below the fold” as it were. Solution: add " -ai" to your query. E.g. assuming you’ve setup Firefox search shortcuts as I recommended (https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox) Type this into your Firefox address bar: b 2026 sep -ai or directly go to https://bing.com/ and enter: 2026 sep -ai and press return. You should see a days and weeks grid display for September 2026, with the current day of the month (the 9th as I’m writing this) selected in the displayed month. Note the new calendar month display features since I last blogged this in 2024: * Day 252 — day of the year! September 9th of 2026 is the 252nd day of 2026. * Week 37 — Sept 9th is also on the 37th week of 2026 * 31 days later — Sept 9th is 31 days from today (August 9th). * < [ Sep v ] > – little anglebracket arrows on either side of the month button/dropdown to one-click nav to the prev/next month * [ Start Day v ] — a new “Start Day” drop down button to change which day of the week to display as the start of the week Amazing that despite already being far better than any other search engine for year month queries, Bing has *improved* its calendar month display search results, while Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo are just as useless (yes I checked) as they were two years ago (I also tried Ecosia and it was no better). I am hashtagging them all to see if anyone at those other search engines notices and gets around to implementing a similar calendar m…
date: 2026-08-09T16:05:00-04:00
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date: 2026-08-10T05:39:47-04:00
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title: : Bing use-case! AKA One Weird Trick Time And Date Sites HateIn my prior post¹ I noted that I use 'b' as a Search Shortcut for #Bing. Here is why: * quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display, with readable days, days of the week, and weekends & holidays highlighted.E.g. I type this into my Firefox address bar:b dec 2024then press return and immediately see:Only Microsoft Bing search supports this. On other search engines (Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo) all you get are links to random date time sites littered with ads, or blurry images of calendar months where the day numbers and holidays are too small to read.This is something I have informally complained about to friends for years, that if you use Google Search for unit conversions, simple arithmetic, and even names of holidays, you get a nice large font “featured snippet” display of exactly your answer. But not something as simple as a month and year or even month with the implication that you want to see the current or next instance of that month. How hard can that be to build? 12 names of months. 12 more 3-letter abbreviations. Multiplied by however number of languages supported. An intern could code that in under an hour. Someone has likely already written a regular expression for detecting this. (Aside: I tried year first, e.g. 2024 Dec, and hilariously enough that did not work to show the nice month display. So I suspect there is a minimal regular expression under the covers of this Bing feature.)From having tried search engines for years, I was pretty convinced no one supported this.Then on a whim I tried this in Bing recently (maybe I hadn’t before?) and to my pleasant surprise it worked.There you have it, a use-case for Bing that only works in Bing, and reason enough to add a 'b' Search Shortcut in Firefox for Bing.#search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month¹ https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox
link: https://status.blaise.ca/notice/116230
description: 's status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 19:58:00 EDT
encoded: Bing use-case! AKA One Weird Trick Time And Date Sites Hate In my prior post¹ I noted that I use 'b' as a Search Shortcut for #Bing. Here is why: * quickly view a Gregorian calendar month display, with readable days, days of the week, and weekends & holidays highlighted. E.g. I type this into my Firefox address bar: b dec 2024 then press return and immediately see: Only Microsoft Bing search supports this. On other search engines (Duckduckgo, Google, Yahoo) all you get are links to random date time sites littered with ads, or blurry images of calendar months where the day numbers and holidays are too small to read. This is something I have informally complained about to friends for years, that if you use Google Search for unit conversions, simple arithmetic, and even names of holidays, you get a nice large font “featured snippet” display of exactly your answer. But not something as simple as a month and year or even month with the implication that you want to see the current or next instance of that month. How hard can that be to build? 12 names of months. 12 more 3-letter abbreviations. Multiplied by however number of languages supported. An intern could code that in under an hour. Someone has likely already written a regular expression for detecting this. (Aside: I tried year first, e.g. 2024 Dec, and hilariously enough that did not work to show the nice month display. So I suspect there is a minimal regular expression under the covers of this Bing feature.) From having tried search engines for years, I was pretty convinced no one supported this. Then on a whim I tried this in Bing recently (maybe I hadn’t before?) and to my pleasant surprise it worked. There you have it, a use-case for Bing that only works in Bing, and reason enough to add a 'b' Search Shortcut in Firefox for Bing. #search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month ¹ https://tantek.com/2024/287/t2/setup-search-shortcuts-firefox
date: 2024-10-13T19:58:00-04:00
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mcnalu: @lnxw48 @jezra I just read that #yahoo search is powered by #bing now
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