I was trying to do statistics on post from some not-too-popular tags like `matlab`, using the [search method][1].  It appears that it will never return a `total` larger than 2000.  Is this a hard limit that cannot be lifted?  Is it possible to get the question count even if it's larger than 2000?  If yes, is it possible to get the data for all questions as well?


  [1]: http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/usage/methods/search