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  47. <span id="id1"></span><h1>Search syntax<a class="headerlink" href="#search-syntax" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h1>
  48. <p>Searx allows you to modify the default categories, engines and search language
  49. via the search query.</p>
  50. <dl class="simple">
  51. <dt>Prefix <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">!</span></code></dt><dd><p>to set Category/engine</p>
  52. </dd>
  53. <dt>Prefix: <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">:</span></code></dt><dd><p>to set language</p>
  54. </dd>
  55. <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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  58. <p>Abbreviations of the engines and languages are also accepted. Engine/category
  59. modifiers 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
  60. <strong>and</strong> wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>).</p>
  61. <p>See the <a class="reference external" href="/preferences">/preferences page</a> for the list of engines,
  62. categories and languages.</p>
  63. <section id="examples">
  64. <h2>Examples<a class="headerlink" href="#examples" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
  65. <p>Search in wikipedia for <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">qwer</span></code>:</p>
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  67. <li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21wp%20qwer">!wp qwer</a> or</p></li>
  68. <li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21wikipedia%20qwer">!wikipedia qwer :search:</a></p></li>
  69. </ul>
  70. <p>Image search:</p>
  71. <ul class="simple">
  72. <li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%21images%20Cthulhu">!images Cthulhu</a></p></li>
  73. </ul>
  74. <p>Custom language in wikipedia:</p>
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  76. <li><p><a class="reference external" href="/?q=%3Ahu%20%21wp%20hackerspace">:hu !wp hackerspace</a></p></li>
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  79. <section id="multilingual-search">
  80. <h2>Multilingual Search<a class="headerlink" href="#multilingual-search" title="Permalink to this heading">¶</a></h2>
  81. <p>Searx does not support true multilingual search.
  82. You have to use the language prefix in your search query when searching in a different language.</p>
  83. <p>But there is a workaround:
  84. By adding a new search engine with a different language, Searx will search in your default and other language.</p>
  85. <dl>
  86. <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><span class="w"></span>
  87. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">language </span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="s">&quot;de&quot;</span><span class="w"></span>
  88. <span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span><span class="w"></span>
  89. <span class="nt">engines</span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"></span>
  90. <span class="w"> </span><span class="p p-Indicator">-</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">name </span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google english</span><span class="w"></span>
  91. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">engine </span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">google</span><span class="w"></span>
  92. <span class="w"> </span><span class="nt">language </span><span class="p">:</span><span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">english</span><span class="w"></span>
  93. <span class="w"> </span><span class="l l-Scalar l-Scalar-Plain">...</span><span class="w"></span>
  94. </pre></div>
  95. </div>
  96. </dd>
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  98. <p>When searching, the default google engine will return German results and “google english” will return English results.</p>
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