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49<span id="id1"></span><h1>Search syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#search-syntax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>

50<p>Searx allows you to modify the default categories, engines and search language

51via the search query.</p>

52<dl class="simple">

53<dt>Prefix <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!</span></code></dt><dd><p>to set Category/engine</p>

54</dd>

55<dt>Prefix: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:</span></code></dt><dd><p>to set language</p>

56</dd>

57<dt>Prefix: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">?</span></code></dt><dd><p>to add engines and categories to the currently selected categories</p>

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60<p>Abbrevations of the engines and languages are also accepted. Engine/category

61modifiers are chainable and inclusive (e.g. with <a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21it%20%21ddg%20%21wp%20qwer">!it !ddg !wp qwer</a> search in IT category <strong>and</strong> duckduckgo

62<strong>and</strong> wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>).</p>

63<p>See the <a class="reference external" href="/preferences">/preferences page</a> for the list of engines,

64categories and languages.</p>

65<div class="section" id="examples">

66<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

67<p>Search in wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>:</p>

68<ul class="simple">

69<li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21wp%20qwer">!wp qwer</a> or</p></li>

70<li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21wikipedia%20qwer">!wikipedia qwer :search:</a></p></li>

71</ul>

72<p>Image search:</p>

73<ul class="simple">

74<li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21images%20Cthulhu">!images Cthulhu</a></p></li>

75</ul>

76<p>Custom language in wikipedia:</p>

77<ul class="simple">

78<li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%3Ahu%20%21wp%20hackerspace">:hu !wp hackerspace</a></p></li>

79</ul>

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81<div class="section" id="multilingual-search">

82<h2>Multilingual Search<a class="headerlink" href="#multilingual-search" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>

83<p>Searx does not support true multilingual search.

84You have to use the language prefix in your search query when searching in a different language.</p>

85<p>But there is a workaround:

86By adding a new search engine with a different language, Searx will search in your default and other language.</p>

87<dl>

88<dt>Example configuration in settings.yml for a German and English speaker:</dt><dd><div class="highlight-yaml notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span><span class="nt">search</span><span class="p">:</span>

89 <span class="nt">language </span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="s">"de"</span>

90 <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>

92<span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span>

93 <span class="p p-Indicator">-</span> <span class="nt">name </span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google english</span>

94 <span class="nt">engine </span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google</span>

95 <span class="nt">language </span><span class="p">:</span> <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">english</span>

96 <span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span>

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101<p>When searching, the default google engine will return German results and “google english” will return English results.</p>

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