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Questions about searching via the API, typically using the /search method.

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How to mimic search behavior of Stack sites?

The API supports the /search call, which only searches for an exact match within the title of questions. For more general searching, I believe the recommendation is to use a search engine. … You can use their (Google, Bing, etc) APIs to search within a single site. …
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