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General
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Ixquick meta-search engine searches AltaVista, AskJeeves/Teoma, FindWhat, Gigablast, Go, Kanoodle,
LookSmart, MSN, Netscape, Open Directory, Ouverture, WiseNut and Yahoo.
Brings "top 10" from each search engine, and aggregates and ranks results. Eliminates duplicates.
Ixquick knows which search engines can handle phrases, boolean logic, wildcards, natural
language and more. Ixquick will translate and forward your searches exclusively to the
search engines that can properly respond to them. As a result you have more relevant
results.
Ixquick supports natural language searching. Try typing a question in the
search box (e.g. What is the capital of Italy ?
).
Ixquick awards each site one star for each search engine that placed it in its top ten for
your search, clearly indicating the quality of the result.
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Case Sensitive
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No, if your search words are all in lowercase.
Yes, if your search words include the desired capital and lowercase letters.
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Phrase searching
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Enclose the phrase in quotation marks " ", e.g. "like this
phrase"
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To require
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Use + immediately before a word, e.g. hyperactivity +children
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To exclude
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Use - immediately before a word, e.g. cats -dogs
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Boolean logic
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AND: between words, e.g. hyperactivity AND children
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OR: between words, e.g. cats OR dogs
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NEAR: use NEAR between words, this ensures that both words appear on a page and are close to
each other.
You can use parenthesis (), e.g. adopt and (beagle or terrier).
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Wildcards
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The asterisk * is placeholder for zero or more unknown characters.
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Sub-searching
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No.
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Field searching
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Specify where certain information must appear with fields. Currently
supported fields include:
title:text
page title must contain this text
domain: page must be located at a .com or .gov or .edu or .uk (etc.) computer.
host: page must be located on this specified computer or on more specific
computers, e.g. host:nytimes.com
will retrieve pages on nytimes.com and on www.nytimes.com.
image:text
page must contain an image whose file name contains the specified text.
url:text find pages with specified text anywhere within the URL, e.g. url:uk
will find https://abc.com/pics/uk.html as well as https://www.uk/
link:text
page must contain a hyperlink for which at least one of the words in the destination address begins
with specified text.
text:text
actual text displayed on the page must contain specified text (otherwise the text might appear in the
title or in the hypertext code but not on the page)
related: find sites with similar content to the specified page
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