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About Ixquick Metasearch
Top ten reasons Ixquick is the most useful metasearch engine around
(all but one of these reasons are true...)
| 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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