Typical Search: maybeword +yesword -"no phrase"
Default Operator: OR
Boolean: [details] + or AND, - or NOT, OR, " ", NEAR, *, ( ) nesting with parentheses
    Ixquick also supports natural language queries such as What is the capital of France?
Case Sensitivity: case sensitive if there are any UPPER case letters
Word Stemming: according to the searched sources
Stop Words: according to the searched sources
Special Keywords: [details] title:, domain:, host:, image:, link:, url:, text:, related:
Unique: highlighted result
Customize: none
More:
Ixquick is one of the best meta search engines today. Your query is translated (well) into the sytax of each source that is searched, and sources which don't support the boolean that you use are not queried (if you use NEAR, then engines which can't handle NEAR aren't searched). There isn't much point to it, but results have as many stars beside them as top 10 placements they had. Each result has a "highlighted result" link. This takes you to a framed page with Ixquick on the top and the orignal page with terms highlighted on the bottom. From the top frame you can jump quickly to any result. Results pages have minimal advertising (a "spotlight" result at the top and an add on the bottom).

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