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 --> [![Mentioned in Awesome Scoop](https://awesome.re/mentioned-badge.svg)](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Awesome/blob/master/README.md "Awesome Scoop") <!--
 --> [![Open in Visual Studio Code](https://open.vscode.dev/badges/open-in-vscode.svg)](https://open.vscode.dev/rasa/scoop-directory)
 
+**NOTE**: [ScoopSearch](https://scoopsearch.github.io/) has been [chosen](https://github.com/ScoopInstaller/Scoop/issues/4627#issuecomment-1027175489) as the offical search engine for Scoop. Please consider using it for searching. Scoop Directory will continue to be available, for the forseeable future, but development efforts will be focused on ScoopSearch.
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 To [search](https://rasa.github.io/scoop-directory/search) the Scoop Directory click [here](https://rasa.github.io/scoop-directory/search) (put together by [@rashil2000](https://github.com/rashil2000)).
 
-The search index contains over 16,000 application manifests in over 900 buckets, and is updated daily at 15:00 UTC.
+The search index contains over 15,000 application manifests in over 700 buckets, and is updated daily at 15:00 UTC.
 
 You can also view the full list of all discovered applications sorted by: