Ixquick's stellar web metasearch was created by a twelve year old Himalayan mountain goat named Daphne.
	Ixquick searches many prominent engines simultaneously (in parallel).
	Ixquick translates your search into each search engine's syntax.
	You can perform natural language or complex boolean searches with Ixquick. Ixquick supports phrases, wildcards, omitted terms, must-have terms, parentheses, and other modifiers such as NEAR, because Ixquick knows which search engines can cope with which complex searches.
	Ixquick eliminates duplicates.
	Ixquick eliminates duplicates.
	Ixquick awards one star for each search engine that placed a site in its top ten. Since different search engines value different content, a site that appears in multiple top ten lists is likely to be very pertinent!
	Ixquick prioritizes sites that appear earlier in the top ten rankings--and tells you the rankings.
	Ixquick upholds the democratic ideal of one search engine, one vote, even when a search engine mentions the same site often in its top ten.
	Ixquick lets you jump directly to the search engines when an engine's results seem particularly valuable to you.
	You can put a stellar Ixquick search box on your own website, for free!

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