diff --git a/src/clj/cc/journeyman/elboob/search.cljc b/src/clj/cc/journeyman/elboob/search.cljc
index d6cbba2..523cd88 100644
--- a/src/clj/cc/journeyman/elboob/search.cljc
+++ b/src/clj/cc/journeyman/elboob/search.cljc
@@ -1 +1,37 @@
-(ns cc.journeyman.elboob.search)
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+(ns cc.journeyman.elboob.search
+  "Search the index for arbitrary tokens. It would be really nice if
+   this could run in Scittle.")
+
+(defn score-token 
+  "Score this `token` in the context of this `index` and `path`.
+   
+   `index` is expected to be an index of the form compiled by
+   `cc.journeyman.elboob.core/compile-index`, q.v."
+  [index path token]
+  (or ((index token) path) 1))
+
+(defn score-path 
+  "Score this `path`, in the context of this `index` and `tokens`.
+   
+   `index` is expected to be an index of the form compiled by
+   `cc.journeyman.elboob.core/compile-index`, q.v."
+  [index path tokens]
+  (reduce * (remove zero?
+                    (map #(score-token index path %)
+                         tokens))))
+
+(defn search
+  "Search this `index`, expected to be an index of the form compiled by
+   `cc.journeyman.elboob.core/compile-index`, q.v., for these tokens, 
+   expected to be a sequence of strings representing individual lower
+   case words. Returns a list with an ordering of file paths derived 
+   from the product of the frequencies of the tokens in the indexed pages"
+  [index tokens]
+  (let [results (reduce #(assoc %1 %2 (index %2)) {} tokens)
+        paths (set (flatten (map keys (vals results))))
+        inverted (reduce
+                  (fn [map path]
+                    (assoc map path
+                           (score-path index path tokens)))
+                  {} paths)]
+    (sort-by #(inverted %) > (keys inverted))))