Ikojo allows searching of both the web and many other resources including images, audio, news & videos. It allows control of the result lists in a standard, compact, and detailed format.

Searches: For an effective search, it is best to enter as many search terms or phrases which exactly qualify the subject in which you are interested. The more precise you can be by offering more exact terms, the better the results.

Case sensitivity: Search terms entered in lower case letters are case insensitive. The use of capitalized terms (or accented letters) makes the term case sensitive. HotDog finds only the terms spelled exactly with that capitalization; hotdog finds all occurances of the term, regardless of capitalization. López only finds a word spelled exactly that way.

Phrases: To group search terms into phrases, include them in double quotes. "Kelly Slater " finds occurences of the name Kelly Slater, capitalized in just that way. Another way to link words into phrases is to insert punctuation between them: Abraham;Lincoln;Gettysburg;Address .

Required Terms: To require that one of your terms be included in the document being indexed, preface (the formal term is prepend ) it with a + symbol: +HotDog . There must not be a space between the + and the term.

Prohibited Terms: To prohibit the inclusion of a term from a document for which you are searching, prepend it with a - symbol: -mustard . To find a reference to F. Scott Fitzgerald without reference to Gatsby: +"F. Scott Fitzgerald" -Gatsby .

Rankings: Ikojo receives it's results from Yahoo Inc. Yahoo provides a ranking to the hits it returns based on the following:

Another way to search for a document with a known title is to enter the keyword title: in the search window and follow it with the title in double quotes: title:"Hawaii accomodation & flights ". Ikojo allows searching within specific html tags like this for anchors, applets, hosts, images, links, text, and urls also.

The most useful advice for searching with Ikojo, since its indices are text based whole words, is to be as precise as possible in describing what you are looking for, while excluding things in which you are not interested. "hawaii" +flights -car rental , will find information on Hawaii and in particular about Flights without finding information on the car rental.