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<h1>Search syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#search-syntax" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>Searx allows you to modify the default categories, engines and search
language via the search query.</p>
<p>Category/engine prefix: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">!</span></code></p>
<p>Language prefix: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">:</span></code></p>
<p>Prefix to add engines and categories to the currently selected
categories: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">?</span></code></p>
<p>Abbrevations of the engines and languages are also accepted.
Engine/category modifiers are chainable and inclusive (e.g. with
<a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/?q=%21it%20%21ddg%20%21wp%20qwer">!it !ddg !wp qwer</a>
search in IT category <strong>and</strong> duckduckgo <strong>and</strong> wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>).</p>
<p>See the <a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/preferences">/preferences page</a> for the
list of engines, categories and languages.</p>
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<h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Search in wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>:
<a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/?q=%21wp%20qwer">!wp qwer</a> or
<a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/?q=%21wikipedia%20qwer">!wikipedia qwer</a></p>
<p>Image search:
<a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/?q=%21images%20Cthulhu">!images Cthulhu</a></p>
<p>Custom language in wikipedia:
<a class="reference external" href="https://searx.me/?q=%3Ahu%20%21wp%20hackerspace">:hu !wp hackerspace</a></p>
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