diff --git a/src/vs/platform/search/common/search.ts b/src/vs/platform/search/common/search.ts
index 6b9887e0330edd36b1da915bd13a21dade359a3a..098e449517794089f1cd03537a808d9fae96fa22 100644
--- a/src/vs/platform/search/common/search.ts
+++ b/src/vs/platform/search/common/search.ts
@@ -36,8 +36,8 @@ export interface IQueryOptions {
 	cacheKey?: string;
 	fileEncoding?: string;
 	useRipgrep?: boolean;
-	useIgnoreFiles?: boolean;
-	useExcludeSettings?: boolean;
+	disregardIgnoreFiles?: boolean;
+	disregardExcludeSettings?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface ISearchQuery extends IQueryOptions {
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchViewlet.ts b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchViewlet.ts
index 59150a51710f7cdeae7ba811127037ad2216795b..52b19a3c183cf0af26e02ba31f11c32df803e556 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchViewlet.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/browser/searchViewlet.ts
@@ -963,8 +963,8 @@ export class SearchViewlet extends Viewlet {
 			excludePattern: excludes,
 			maxResults: SearchViewlet.MAX_TEXT_RESULTS,
 			includePattern: includes,
-			useIgnoreFiles,
-			useExcludeSettings
+			disregardIgnoreFiles: !useIgnoreFiles,
+			disregardExcludeSettings: !useExcludeSettings
 		};
 
 		this.onQueryTriggered(this.queryBuilder.text(content, options), patternExcludes, patternIncludes);
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/common/searchQuery.ts b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/common/searchQuery.ts
index c2b85a0470b00288b470cbd3d4e02c9fa517b264..66118bfe5c9f766da91c3ec0b5ea165ccdfc1c21 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/common/searchQuery.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/parts/search/common/searchQuery.ts
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ export class QueryBuilder {
 		const configuration = this.configurationService.getConfiguration<ISearchConfiguration>();
 
 		const settingsExcludePattern = getExcludes(configuration);
-		if (options.useExcludeSettings) {
+		if (!options.disregardExcludeSettings) {
 			if (options.excludePattern) {
 				mixin(options.excludePattern, settingsExcludePattern, false /* no overwrite */);
 			} else {
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ export class QueryBuilder {
 			fileEncoding: options.fileEncoding,
 			contentPattern: contentPattern,
 			useRipgrep: configuration.search.useRipgrep,
-			useIgnoreFiles: options.useIgnoreFiles
+			disregardIgnoreFiles: options.disregardIgnoreFiles
 		};
 	}
 }
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diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/ripgrepTextSearch.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/ripgrepTextSearch.ts
index 0fcd2731a62ab608dd73719bb613d66ddbbabc11..1897d53c820a5f0054322e618cdcf836926e226d 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/ripgrepTextSearch.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/ripgrepTextSearch.ts
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ function getRgArgs(config: IRawSearch): { args: string[], siblingClauses: glob.I
 		args.push('--max-filesize', config.maxFilesize + '');
 	}
 
-	if (!config.useIgnoreFiles) {
+	if (config.disregardIgnoreFiles) {
 		// Don't use .gitignore or .ignore
 		args.push('--no-ignore');
 	}
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/search.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/search.ts
index 7f4ed33e360c32d0233786e46d162c28bd03bb9c..527e86e9b9a541ae8af90907033e71029f53ffa3 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/search.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/search.ts
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ export interface IRawSearch {
 	maxFilesize?: number;
 	fileEncoding?: string;
 	useRipgrep?: boolean;
-	useIgnoreFiles?: boolean;
+	disregardIgnoreFiles?: boolean;
 }
 
 export interface IRawSearchService {
diff --git a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
index e5db5a60cf090ddec479296a1a2ae02d8a67696a..b73cdcf4f411aa4952f58490bd0070ce17b4e08b 100644
--- a/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
+++ b/src/vs/workbench/services/search/node/searchService.ts
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ export class DiskSearch {
 			sortByScore: query.sortByScore,
 			cacheKey: query.cacheKey,
 			useRipgrep: query.useRipgrep,
-			useIgnoreFiles: query.useIgnoreFiles
+			disregardIgnoreFiles: query.disregardIgnoreFiles
 		};
 
 		if (query.type === QueryType.Text) {