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My HAVE FUN users understand the value of family filtered searching!

By using My HAVE FUN to search the Web, you are using the most powerful family filtered searching tool "IxQuick" (IxQuick Q&A) to search multiple search engines at once. IxQuick metasearch technology with family filter highlights the strengths of many of the Web's major search properties, delivering more relevant and comprehensive results every time you search.

The query results returned from these search engines include a few commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial results. The current product is designed to identify the intent of a user's search. If the search term (i.e. buy roses) is determined to be commercial in nature, a blended mix of results weighted towards sponsored results would be displayed. In the case of a noncommercial term (i.e. roses and aphids), the blended mix of results would be weighted towards research-driven results.

Why a Metasearch?

When you submit key words into the search box of a metasearch engine, your words are transmitted simultaneously to a host of individual search engines and their databases of Website pages.

Within seconds, results come back from all the search engines queried. Metasearch engines do not maintain a database of Website pages; they send your search terms to the databases of other search engines.

As a rule, search engines index only a fraction of the actual number of pages on the Web. Even the biggest crawlers, like Fast or Google, index only a limited number of these pages. If you want a truly broad, comprehensive search, this is a great option. An IxQuick Metasearch covers the greatest number of independent search engine databases.

Clean & Decent Design

A search machine is nothing more than a tool. And its users expect nothing less than useful information in not much more time than it takes to click search.

The people behind the IxQuick tool, are totally dedicated to the concept of 'no waste'. Presenting relevant, quality information, fast and focused - minus distracting banners, unwelcome consoles or pop-ups, and useless news information - is everything. As it is with lyrics set to music, where only words that are relevant to advancing a musician's message, will make a genuine contribution.

As families and childrens personal privacy concerns grow and the freedom of the Internet, IxQuick has taken a pioneering step by permanently deleting all personal search details gleaned from its users from the log files. See IxQuick press release

Searches and returns results from a collection of search partners, including:

Search Engines: A software program that searches a database by gathering and reporting information that contains or is related to specified terms.

Search engines searched by IxQuick include GigaBlast, Netscape, Ask Jeeves, Teoma, MSN, Yahoo, and Entireweb.

Web Directories: Server(s) dedicated to indexing Internet Website pages and returning lists of pages, which match particular queries. Directories are normally compiled manually, by user submission, and often involve an editorial selection and/or categorization process.

Web directories searched by IxQuick include Open Directory, Looksmart, Overture, Findwhat, and Wisenut.

Search like a PRO the IxQuick way:

Design a Great Search with Advanced Syntax. You can make your search even more effective by using advanced syntax. Here are examples:

All of the terms:

+UFO +abduction
or,
UFO and abduction

Place a plus (+) before any word that must be included. Alternatively, place the word AND between two words or phrases that must be included. IxQuick will only return pages that contain all those words.

If some words are mandatory but others are optional, place the + before only the mandatory words (for example, green +jell-o +pudding if you are less concerned about the color but are aching for a tasty jell-o pudding).

Omit a term:

dinosaur -barney

Place a minus (-) before any word that must not be present. Alternatively, place the words NOT, AND NOT or AND NOT before that word.

For example, dinosaur -barney if you are looking for pages on dinosaurs but don't want to find Barney the Dinosaur.

Phrase:

"south park"

Place a phrase in quotes if all the words need to appear together as a phrase, and not scattered about the page.

For example, a search for "south park" is more likely to find websites devoted to the violent television show South Park and less likely to find pages about parks located in the south Florida.

Capitalization:

shoes

TidBITS

Type your search words in all lowercase if you don't care whether the results are capitalized or not (case insensitive). If you do care, and are looking for the Macintosh publication TidBITS, type your desired capital and lowercase letters to avoid words that aren't capitalized the same way (case sensitive). For example, TidBITS finds the newsletter for Macintosh users.

Wildcards:

brit*

The asterisk (*) represents a wildcard, meaning a placeholder for zero or more unknown characters. It is useful when you don't remember an exact name or phrase or when you want to retrieve variants on a word.

For example, the search brit* might return sites discussing Britney Spears and sites discussing Britain.

Parentheses:

adopt and (beagle or terrier)

Construct complex queries by mixing ands, ors and nots within parentheses.

For example, a search for adopt and (beagle or terrier) would find pages with the words adopt and beagle, or adopt and terrier, or possibly all three words.

Fields:

Specify where certain information must appear with fields. Currently supported fields include:

+title:"Dan Quayle" +mensa

title: page title must contain this text

+domain:com +childrens health

domain: page must be located at a .com or .gov or .edu or .uk (etc.) computer

host:havfun.com
or,
site:havfun.com

host: page must be located on this specified computer or on more specific computers (e.g. host:havfun.com will retrieve pages on havfun.com and on www.havfun.com)

image:clouds

image: page must contain an image whose file name contains the specified text.

url:bigman

url: find pages with specified text anywhere within the url, e.g. url:uk will find http://abc.com/pics/uk.html as well as http://www.uk/

link:aboutourkids

link: page must contain a hyperlink for which at least one of the words in the destination address begins with specified text.

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