There are two ways to search the engine:  through pre-defined categories and through your own keywords.  If you choose a catagory any keyword you enter will be ignored.  So for the most specific searches don't choose a category.  You may enter multiple keywords for searching to fine tune your searches.  Seperate keywords with a single space and avoid the use of commas (they are not needed).

Advanced Searching:

All searches are case-insensitive, so upper and lower case does not matter.  You may select a boolean setting of AND or OR (OR being the default).  A "AND" selection will pull up results that match all of your entered keywords, while a selection of "OR" will pull up listings that match any keywords you entered.  Note that for the most specific searches use the "AND" mode.  You have a choice between a result display of 5 or 10 listings.  For quicker searches select the smaller of the two.  Note that once your initial search is complete you can browse through another 5 or 10 listings and so on until all matches are viewed.

Protection for Minors:

X-search.com is "not" a curtain page.  It is up to the individual webmaster to provide curtain pages and adult access control for their individual listings.  The individual webmaster is responsible (legally and otherwise) for such protection, and for the content of his/her website.  If you encounter a listing which does not adequately protect minors from sensitive data please let our staff know about it.  We will remove any such listing.  Please give us the full listing code (usually two sets of numbers that appear in the listing url; for example, 0123456.12345.html) when reporting a violation or a dead link.