You can execute search queries against the Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 Search by encoding your query in a URL and posting it to the search page.
Parameters
The following table describes the URL search parameters that you can use with Search.
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URL Parameter
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Description
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Example
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k
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Specifies the keywords. You can only specify one value for this parameter.
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results.aspx?k=sharepoint%20search
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v
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Specifies the result view that is to be used for the query.
This parameter must be either:
relevance - results are sorted by relevance
date - results are sorted by date
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results.aspx?v=date
results.aspx?v=relevance
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start
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Specifies which results page number to show.
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results.aspx?start=3
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Remarks
If your search results page contains multiple queries, you can specify which query the parameter applies to by appending a number from 1 to 5, indicating the Search Query Results ID, between the parameter and the "=" character in the URL.
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