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As some of you already know, del.icio.us quietly released a newer, much spiffier search engine about two weeks ago. I can assure you that it would have been a much louder release had hurricane Wilma not cut my services shortly afterwards. I'm back now, and I'm happy---damned proud, actually---to announce our fully armed and operational search engine. Go try it!

By the way, here are some details about the new query syntax. It's dead easy: Enter some words, and you'll get back links that contain all of them: bacon lettuce tomato finds BLTs.

The search engine goes through tags, page titles, extended descriptions... the works. Tags can be searched exclusively, though. Prefix tags with "tag:" like so: tag:bacon.

The purists out there might want to search for BLTs specifically. They're welcome to look for "bacon lettuce and tomato" as a phrase.  Note the quotes.

Maybe you can take or leave bacon. Maybe you also like tofu sandwiches. You're the kind of person who'll love the OR operator and parentheses: (bacon OR tofu) lettuce tomato gets you BLTs or the tofu, lettuce and tomato variety.

Vegans can use the - (minus) prefix to exclude meat products: lettuce tomato -bacon -ham gets you salads.

The search engine also supports AND, which is almost never needed because it's the default. There's also NOT to negate a term. Most of the time the minus prefix will work. We even support XOR, which is a bit funky: (bacon XOR ham) cheese gets you bacon and cheese, or ham and cheese, but not bacon, ham and cheese.

But you probably almost never need to worry about all that. The simple keyword searches are a lot of fun by themselves.