Accessing sharepoint search engine programatically using c#

Question

How can we perform a sharepoint 2007 search programatically?i.e. I wanna search the whole sharepoint site for a (suppose) hard coded string through coding and get the results. When I'll be running the code it will access the sharepoint search engine and show me the search results.Please help me out...

Answer 1

you can use SharePoint web service to do that.

Corey Roth have a tutorial about using SharePoint search web service.

MSDN also have article to use web service for enterprise search in http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms543175%28v=office.12%29.aspx