Introduction to the Search Service

Introduction

These days, most websites and applications provide search functionalities due to a number of advantages the search feature brings. For example, GitHub uses the search API to efficiently find a specific file or repository from more than 200 million repositories.

The search API takes a search query from a user and searches for relevant records based on the parameters in the query, as depicted in the following figure. In return, the user may get varied responses, including images, thumbnails of videos, recommendations, sponsored or featured advertisements, and primarily text results.