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: 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.#search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month#CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia.#Blaugust #Blaugust2026
's status on Sunday, 09-Aug-2026 16:05:00 EDT
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 month display. #search #webSearch #SearchShortcut #Microsoft #Bing #MicrosoftBing #BingSearch #BingTip #searchTip #calendar #month #CoPilot #NoCoPilot #NoAI #NoGenAI #NoLLM #Firefox #DuckDuckGo #Google #GoogleSearch #Yahoo #YahooSearch #Ecosia. #Blaugust #Blaugust2026
: 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
's status on Sunday, 13-Oct-2024 19:58:00 EDT
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
fsf: Our petition calling for #Microsoft to #UpcycleWindows7 has whooshed past our goal of 7,777 signers and is still climbing! Can we get past 10,000 today? https://u.fsf.org/upcycle https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1763851
fsf's status on Tuesday, 28-Jan-2020 10:37:13 EST
Our petition calling for #Microsoft to #UpcycleWindows7 has whooshed past our goal of 7,777 signers and is still climbing! Can we get past 10,000 today? https://u.fsf.org/upcycle https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1763851
fsf: Just Friday, we asked for 7,777 activists to stand with us in calling on #Microsoft to #UpcycleWindows7. With your help we've smashed through that goal. Sign today & stay tuned for updates on the campaign! https://u.fsf.org/upcycle https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1761444
fsf's status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 16:33:13 EST
Just Friday, we asked for 7,777 activists to stand with us in calling on #Microsoft to #UpcycleWindows7. With your help we've smashed through that goal. Sign today & stay tuned for updates on the campaign! https://u.fsf.org/upcycle https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1761444
fsf: In case you missed it: sign our new petition!!!! #Microsoft's support of Windows 7 is over - but its life doesn't have to end. Tell them to #UpcycleWindows7 by releasing it as free software. https://u.fsf.org/2-d https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1753128
fsf's status on Monday, 27-Jan-2020 10:39:22 EST
In case you missed it: sign our new petition!!!! #Microsoft's support of Windows 7 is over - but its life doesn't have to end. Tell them to #UpcycleWindows7 by releasing it as free software. https://u.fsf.org/2-d https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1753128
fsf: #Microsoft's support of Windows 7 is over - but its life doesn't have to end. Tell them to #UpcycleWindows7 by signing our petition to release it as free software. https://u.fsf.org/2-d https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1753128
fsf's status on Friday, 24-Jan-2020 16:02:06 EST
#Microsoft's support of Windows 7 is over - but its life doesn't have to end. Tell them to #UpcycleWindows7 by signing our petition to release it as free software. https://u.fsf.org/2-d https://status.fsf.org/attachment/1753128
nextcloud: #Microsoft #Office leaked data from Dutch government workers to US servers , including the subject of emails and text that was translated, violating the #GDPRYou should be #selfhosting. #nextcloud is the premier alternative to #office365 - find out why: https://nextcloud.com/files
nextcloud's status on Wednesday, 14-Nov-2018 05:26:22 EST
#Microsoft #Office leaked data from Dutch government workers to US servers , including the subject of emails and text that was translated, violating the #GDPR You should be #selfhosting. #nextcloud is the premier alternative to #office365 - find out why: https://nextcloud.com/files
bobjonkmanformer: If #Microsoft !Windows continues to improve itself until it is entirely GNU+Linux compatible, then the !ReactOS folks could head them off at the pass and just merge in the Linux kernel now. #NotGonnaHappen #IHopeThatsNotGonnaHappen
bobjonkmanformer's status on Saturday, 04-Feb-2017 18:05:56 EST
If #Microsoft !Windows continues to improve itself until it is entirely GNU+Linux compatible, then the !ReactOS folks could head them off at the pass and just merge in the Linux kernel now. #NotGonnaHappen #IHopeThatsNotGonnaHappen
Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
bobjonkmanformer: @psema4 That says more about the !Linux Foundation than it does about #Microsoft
bobjonkmanformer's status on Wednesday, 16-Nov-2016 19:04:02 EST
@psema4 That says more about the !Linux Foundation than it does about #Microsoft
mmn: RT @julialongtin Microsoft is a serial tax evader -- something that Sanders is planning to tackle. How can #microsoft be trusted to run Iowa votes?
mmn's status on Monday, 01-Feb-2016 08:14:59 EST
RT @julialongtin Microsoft is a serial tax evader -- something that Sanders is planning to tackle. How can #microsoft be trusted to run Iowa votes?
julialongtin: Microsoft is a serial tax evader -- something that Sanders is planning to tackle. How can #microsoft be trusted to run Iowa votes?
julialongtin's status on Monday, 01-Feb-2016 05:21:32 EST
Microsoft is a serial tax evader -- something that Sanders is planning to tackle. How can #microsoft be trusted to run Iowa votes?
johns: If the #Patriots lose this game because of #Microsoft... @nearyd
johns's status on Sunday, 24-Jan-2016 16:04:06 EST
If the #Patriots lose this game because of #Microsoft... @nearyd
mmn: A friend is using #Windows 10. It suddenly starts crashing within 15 minutes of booting. Frustration grows. I slide in, install #Ubuntu (dual boot) - clicket-i-click - the machine works fine. All desired software works perfectly. T https://social.umeahackerspace.se/notice/318923
mmn's status on Thursday, 17-Dec-2015 19:08:22 EST
A friend is using #Windows 10. It suddenly starts crashing within 15 minutes of booting. Frustration grows. I slide in, install #Ubuntu (dual boot) - clicket-i-click - the machine works fine. All desired software works perfectly. T…
mmn: @nidron Haha! Det är ju jättebra att hon har en Nokia-keps. Särskilt när temat är "har inget att sälja!". *förklarar hela situationen med #Microsoft och #Nokia så den roliga stämningen dör*
mmn's status on Wednesday, 02-Dec-2015 06:14:33 EST
@nidron Haha! Det är ju jättebra att hon har en Nokia-keps. Särskilt när temat är "har inget att sälja!". *förklarar hela situationen med #Microsoft och #Nokia så den roliga stämningen dör*
mmn: Heh, last time I checked you _can't_ delete your #Skype account. #Microsoft's recommended method is to edit your profile to be unrecognizable and then send a message to them asking them to essentially change the password so you can https://social.umeahackerspace.se/notice/274328
mmn's status on Saturday, 19-Sep-2015 06:04:48 EDT
Heh, last time I checked you _can't_ delete your #Skype account. #Microsoft's recommended method is to edit your profile to be unrecognizable and then send a message to them asking them to essentially change the password so you can…
mmn: RT @crismblog French Government IT directorate stands its ground : ODF supported, OOXML rejected https://quitter.ro/url/428 #french #free #odf #ooxml #microsoft #office #fsf #gnu #gnulinux #linux
mmn's status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2015 03:33:49 EDT
RT @crismblog French Government IT directorate stands its ground : ODF supported, OOXML rejected https://quitter.ro/url/428 #french #free #odf #ooxml #microsoft #office #fsf #gnu #gnulinux #linux
crismblog: French Government IT directorate stands its ground : ODF supported, OOXML rejected https://quitter.ro/url/428 #french #free #odf #ooxml #microsoft #office #fsf #gnu #gnulinux #linux
crismblog's status on Saturday, 11-Jul-2015 02:33:32 EDT
French Government IT directorate stands its ground : ODF supported, OOXML rejected https://quitter.ro/url/428 #french #free #odf #ooxml #microsoft #office #fsf #gnu #gnulinux #linux
marc0s: Cansar de sentir publicitat encoberta de #microsoft en forma de notícia a #catradio
marc0s's status on Wednesday, 17-Jun-2015 04:35:40 EDT
Cansar de sentir publicitat encoberta de #microsoft en forma de notícia a #catradio
mmn: Now that Stephen Elop has left #Nokia, their phone division has migrated to #Microsoft head https://social.umeahackerspace.se/notice/155430
mmn's status on Tuesday, 18-Nov-2014 06:18:27 EST
Now that Stephen Elop has left #Nokia, their phone division has migrated to #Microsoft head…
eric: RT @erkan " #Microsoft served a federal court order + #seized 22 of our most commonly used d http://status-ericxdu.rhcloud.com/notice/95514
eric's status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2014 11:18:26 EDT
RT @erkan " #Microsoft served a federal court order + #seized 22 of our most commonly used d…
erkan: " #Microsoft served a federal court order + #seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they #c https://fediverse.com/notice/74613
erkan's status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2014 09:53:13 EDT
" #Microsoft served a federal court order + #seized 22 of our most commonly used domains because they #c…
mcnalu: @bobjonkman wow, #microsoft have a real talent for hammering nails into their own coffin.
mcnalu's status on Tuesday, 01-Jul-2014 03:16:00 EDT
@bobjonkman wow, #microsoft have a real talent for hammering nails into their own coffin.
krayon: I HATE you #dell , #microsoft , #uefi and #secureboot ... OK, MAYBE not #uefi ...
krayon's status on Tuesday, 06-May-2014 02:14:08 EDT
I HATE you #dell , #microsoft , #uefi and #secureboot ... OK, MAYBE not #uefi ...
lnxw37: #Azure = new #Microsoft. #WOES = old #MSFT http://quitter.se/url/607927
lnxw37's status on Tuesday, 04-Feb-2014 20:17:23 EST
#Azure = new #Microsoft. #WOES = old #MSFT http://quitter.se/url/607927
lnxw37: RT @boneidol Discovered the File System Integrity Checker #Microsoft #sha1 #md5 today https://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290
lnxw37's status on Wednesday, 08-Jan-2014 08:49:00 EST
RT @boneidol Discovered the File System Integrity Checker #Microsoft #sha1 #md5 today https://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290
boneidol: Discovered the File System Integrity Checker #Microsoft #sha1 #md5 today https://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290
boneidol's status on Monday, 06-Jan-2014 07:50:16 EST
Discovered the File System Integrity Checker #Microsoft #sha1 #md5 today https://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290
windigo: Outlook Web Access: Right-click and save a PDF to your hard drive so that I can manually re-open it in Iceweasel. #fail #microsoft
windigo's status on Wednesday, 04-Sep-2013 16:24:32 EDT
Outlook Web Access: Right-click and save a PDF to your hard drive so that I can manually re-open it in Iceweasel. #fail #microsoft
fsf: RT @fsfe As #Microsoft repeal some #Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products http://ur1.ca/eduax !fsfe !gnu !fs
fsf's status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2013 15:34:17 EDT
RT @fsfe As #Microsoft repeal some #Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products http://ur1.ca/eduax !fsfe !gnu !fs
fsfe: As #Microsoft repeal some #Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products http://ur1.ca/eduax !fsfe !gnu !fs
fsfe's status on Thursday, 20-Jun-2013 12:22:50 EDT
As #Microsoft repeal some #Xbox restrictions, more apply to other products http://ur1.ca/eduax !fsfe !gnu !fs
jbfavre: Sinon, y a #Microsoft qui prépare des MS Glass http://lazy-movies.tumblr.com/post/51807220077/microsoft-glass
jbfavre's status on Friday, 31-May-2013 12:09:01 EDT
Sinon, y a #Microsoft qui prépare des MS Glass http://lazy-movies.tumblr.com/post/51807220077/microsoft-glass