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What is Metasearch? |
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What is the Preferences
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How do I search within
results or refine my search? |
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How do I filter out
Adult Content from my searches? |
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How can I improve my search accuracy when looking for images, audio, video, or news results?
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Q: What is
Metasearch?
A: The short answer is that Metasearch searches more engines,
allowing better coverage of the Web, and therefore providing
better overall results to the user. Or take a crash course on Metasearch.
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Q: What is the
Preferences section?
A: The Preferences
section allows you to customize Metasearch to search based on your
preferences. These settings remain in place until you change them.
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Q: How do I search
within results or refine my search?
A: Metasearch gives you the opportunity to search within results
for greater accuracy. When you enter a search, Metasearch
automatically organizes results into categories based on words and
phrases contained in the results.
For example, if you searched the term "insurance", Metasearch
would sort the results into various insurance categories, like
Home, Auto, Fire, Health, etc. under the Refine Your Results
heading on the left side of the results page. By clicking on any
of the category links there, you would then view the results for
that specific category.
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Q: How do I filter
out Adult Content from my searches?
A: Adult content can be filtered from your search results, by
changing your preference settings. To do so, go to the Preferences
page, select the level of filtering you want (Heavy,
Moderate, None) from the list in the Search Filter section
and click Save Settings. Heavy Filter will filter
out as much adult content as possible. Once you have set the
filter to Heavy, it will remain on Heavy until you
change your settings. Results for filtered searches are only
provided by partners who provide filtered results.
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Q: How can I improve my search accuracy when looking for images, audio, video, or news results?
A: You can search for these specific categories of results by clicking on the corresponding radio buttons at the top of the search page. Also note that you can refine your search within each category by using the Advanced Search option. For an image search, for example, you can filter for specific image color, size, or file format. Audio and Video searches can be filtered for playtime or file format. And news searches can be filtered by news category, location, date or source.
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