Hi Fabio, You were absolutely right. This method only takes "free text" and searches it through document names & content. The results varied greatly if I changed the order of the words being passed into the "query" parameter. Also, I wasn't able to retrieve the URL from the search results. Only the title could be accessed. As a result, I had to pass the top 10 results iteratively to the getPage method to obtain the URL. The objective here was to display search results from the XWiki into another application. The application would pass certain query parameters to XWiki & XWiki would then return document URLs which might be of help in the other application. I also began fiddling with the REST api a little bit. I see that a lot of methods in the examples at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Features/XWikiRESTfulAPI were based on HttpClient 3.x api & the latest one is 4.0. Also, the JAXB I happen to use is 2.1 (available in Netbeans as a default plugin). Since, I am new to this, it will take a lot of time, effort & of course help from friends at XWiki community to get up to date with the latest api :) Just a question though - will the REST getMethod call for the /wikis/{wikiName}/spaces/{spaceName}/search?q={keywords}[[&scope={name,conte nt,title,objects}...]&number=n] resource result in the same search result as does the internal wiki default/lucene search. My belief is it will return the same result since we are fetching the same page. Thanks for your help & timely response Fabio.