|  | Search syntax
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							|  | Searx allows you to modify the default categories, engines and search
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							|  | language via the search query.
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							|  | Category/engine prefix: ``!``
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							|  | Language prefix: ``:``
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							|  | Prefix to add engines and categories to the currently selected
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							|  | categories: ``?``
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							|  | Abbrevations of the engines and languages are also accepted.
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							|  | Engine/category modifiers are chainable and inclusive (e.g. with
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							|  | `!it !ddg !wp qwer <https://searx.me/?q=%21it%20%21ddg%20%21wp%20qwer>`_
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							|  | search in IT category **and** duckduckgo **and** wikipedia for ``qwer``).
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							|  | See the `/preferences page <https://searx.me/preferences>`_ for the
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							|  | list of engines, categories and languages.
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							|  | Examples
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							|  | Search in wikipedia for ``qwer``:
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							|  | `!wp qwer <https://searx.me/?q=%21wp%20qwer>`__ or
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							|  | `!wikipedia qwer <https://searx.me/?q=%21wikipedia%20qwer>`_
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							|  | Image search:
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							|  | `!images Cthulhu <https://searx.me/?q=%21images%20Cthulhu>`_
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							|  | Custom language in wikipedia:
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							|  | `:hu !wp hackerspace <https://searx.me/?q=%3Ahu%20%21wp%20hackerspace>`_
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