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This chapter describes how to make search requests to Alexa's search engine. The service:
Returns up to 200 results at a time.
Gives access up to 5000 results that match a particular query
Allows filtering of the results by site, language and about 50 other attributes
Returns XML containing the search results
Query the search engine by passing in a Query to the Search action.
Here is an sample request that searches for documents about cats:
Example
http://wsearch.amazonaws.com/? AWSAccessKeyId=9876543212345123 &Timestamp=2007-01-26T01%3A15%3A38.000Z &Signature=oQkiPZUtQ9PlTI2l4OTRA8fjYsM%3D &Action=Search &Version=2007-03-15 &ResponseGroup=Context &Query=cats
