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title: "How search works"
description: "Flight and hotel searches are asynchronous; read results until they settle."
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# How search works

Flight and hotel searches are asynchronous. Creating a search returns a `searchId` immediately while travel providers keep answering in the background. Each read of the results endpoint returns the current ranked snapshot; early reads can be sparse or empty, so read again after a moment until the page fills or `metadata` stops growing.

Source: https://docs.wego.com/api/how-search-works/index.mdx