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 == Searching iDigBio ==
-While iDigBio does not currently provide Search API endpoints to faciliate queries via the API, we do offer direct access to the Elasticsearch index servers. This is the same interface that is used by the iDigBio Portal search to query Elasticsearch.  Elasticsearch provides Lucene-style indexes for querying which return JSON formatted data.
+While iDigBio does not currently provide Search API endpoints to faciliate queries via the API, we do offer direct access to the backend Elasticsearch index servers. This is the same interface that is used by the iDigBio Portal search to query Elasticsearch.  Elasticsearch provides Lucene-style indexes for querying which return JSON formatted data.
 Direct queries to the iDigBio Elasticsearch service should be considered an Advanced operation.