diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapCollection.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapCollection.java
index 446c085..2db10b8 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapCollection.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapCollection.java
@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.search.QueryWrapperFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.NumericRangeFilter;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.Filter;
+
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapIndex;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapResult;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapFilter;
+
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.util.KorapDate;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.filter.BooleanFilter;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.filter.FilterOperation;
@@ -17,10 +19,6 @@
 import org.apache.lucene.index.AtomicReaderContext;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.FixedBitSet;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits;
-/*
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits.MatchAllBits;
-import org.apache.lucene.util.Bits.MatchNoBits;
-*/
 import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSetIterator;
 import org.apache.lucene.search.DocIdSet;
 
@@ -36,8 +34,8 @@
 
 public class KorapCollection {
     private KorapIndex index;
-    private String id;
     private KorapDate created;
+    private String id;
     private ArrayList<FilterOperation> filter;
     private int filterCount = 0;
     
@@ -50,11 +48,19 @@
 	this.filter = new ArrayList<FilterOperation>(5);
     };
 
+    public KorapCollection () {
+	this.filter = new ArrayList<FilterOperation>(5);
+    };
+
     public int getCount() {
 	return this.filterCount;
     };
 
-    public void filter (BooleanFilter filter) {
+    public void setIndex (KorapIndex ki) {
+	this.index = ki;
+    };
+
+    public KorapCollection filter (BooleanFilter filter) {
 	this.filter.add(
 	    new FilterOperation(
 				(Filter) new QueryWrapperFilter(filter.toQuery()),
@@ -62,9 +68,10 @@
             )
         );
 	this.filterCount++;
+	return this;
     };
 
-    public void extend (BooleanFilter filter) {
+    public KorapCollection extend (BooleanFilter filter) {
 	this.filter.add(
 	    new FilterOperation(
 				(Filter) new QueryWrapperFilter(filter.toQuery()),
@@ -72,14 +79,14 @@
             )
         );
 	this.filterCount++;
+	return this;
     };
 
     public ArrayList<FilterOperation> getFilters () {
 	return this.filter;
     };
 
-    // Todo: Create new KorapSearch Object!
-
+    // DEPRECATED BUT USED IN TEST CASES
     public KorapResult search (SpanQuery query) {
 	return this.index.search(this, query, 0, (short) 20, true, (short) 5, true, (short) 5);
     };
@@ -158,10 +165,16 @@
     };
 
     public long numberOf (String foundry, String type) throws IOException {
+	if (this.index == null)
+	    return (long) 0;
+
 	return this.index.numberOf(this, foundry, type);
     };
 
     public long numberOf (String type) throws IOException {
+	if (this.index == null)
+	    return (long) 0;
+
 	return this.index.numberOf(this, "tokens", type);
     };
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapIndex.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapIndex.java
index 7492c7d..06d3edf 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapIndex.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapIndex.java
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapResult;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapMatch;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapCollection;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapSearch;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.index.PositionsToOffset;
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.document.KorapPrimaryData;
 
@@ -471,6 +472,23 @@
 	return this.search(new KorapCollection(this), query, startIndex, count, leftTokenContext, leftContext, rightTokenContext, rightContext);
     };
 
+    public KorapResult search (KorapCollection kc, KorapSearch ks) {
+	return this.search(kc,
+			   ks.getQuery(),
+			   ks.getStartIndex(),
+			   ks.getCount(),
+			   ks.leftContext.isToken(),
+			   ks.leftContext.getLength(),
+			   ks.rightContext.isToken(),
+			   ks.rightContext.getLength()
+			   );
+    };
+
+    public KorapResult search (KorapSearch ks) {
+	return this.search(new KorapCollection(this), ks);
+    };
+
+
 
     // old: Bits bitset
     public KorapResult search (KorapCollection collection,
@@ -506,6 +524,8 @@
 	    long t1 = 0;
 	    long t2 = 0;
 
+	    int hits = kr.itemsPerPage() + startIndex;
+
 	    ArrayList<KorapMatch> atomicMatches = new ArrayList<KorapMatch>(kr.itemsPerPage());
 
 	    for (AtomicReaderContext atomic : this.reader().leaves()) {
@@ -527,7 +547,7 @@
 		// See: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-benchmark1/index.html
 		t1 = System.nanoTime();
 
-		for (; i < kr.itemsPerPage(); i++) {
+		for (; i < hits; i++) {
 
 		    log.trace("Match Nr {}/{}", i, count);
 
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapQuery.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapQuery.java
index 82b67bd..905199b 100644
--- a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapQuery.java
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapQuery.java
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.wrap.*;
 import org.apache.lucene.util.automaton.RegExp;
 
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+
 import java.util.*;
 
 import org.slf4j.Logger;
@@ -30,6 +32,48 @@
 	this.field = field;
     };
 
+    public SpanQueryWrapperInterface fromJSON (String json) {
+	// Todo:
+	return this.seg("s:test");
+    };
+
+    // http://fasterxml.github.io/jackson-databind/javadoc/2.2.0/com/fasterxml/jackson/databind/JsonNode.html
+    public SpanQueryWrapperInterface fromJSON (JsonNode json) {
+	String type = json.get("@type").asText();
+	if (type.equals("korap:group")) {
+	    String relation = json.get("relation").asText();
+
+	    // Alternation
+	    if (relation.equals("or")) {
+		SpanAlterQueryWrapper ssaq = new SpanAlterQueryWrapper(this.field);
+		for (JsonNode operand : json.get("operands")) {
+		    ssaq.or(this.fromJSON(operand));
+		};
+		return ssaq;
+	    }
+	    else {
+		System.err.println("Unknown element");
+	    };
+	}
+	else if (type.equals("korap:token")) {
+	    SpanSegmentQueryWrapper ssqw = new SpanSegmentQueryWrapper(this.field);
+	    JsonNode value = json.get("@value");
+	    type = value.get("@type").asText();
+	    if (type.equals("korap:term")) {
+		if (value.get("relation").asText().equals("=")) {
+		    ssqw.with(value.get("@value").asText());
+		};
+	    }
+	    else {
+		System.err.println("Unknown type");
+	    };
+
+	    return ssqw;
+	}
+
+	return this.seg("s:test");
+    };
+
 
     // SpanSegmentRegexQuery
     /**
diff --git a/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapSearch.java b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapSearch.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d5e0c51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/main/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/KorapSearch.java
@@ -0,0 +1,161 @@
+package de.ids_mannheim.korap;
+
+import java.io.*;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.search.spans.SpanQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.query.wrap.SpanQueryWrapperInterface;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapCollection;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapIndex;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapResult;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+
+// Todo: Use configuration file
+
+/*
+KorapResult = new KorapSearch(String json).run(KorapIndex ki);
+startPage!!!
+*/
+
+public class KorapSearch {
+    private int startIndex;
+    private short count = 25;
+    private short countMax = 50;
+    // private int limit = -1;
+    private SpanQuery query;
+    public KorapSearchContext leftContext, rightContext;
+    private KorapCollection collection;
+    private KorapIndex index;
+
+    {
+	leftContext = new KorapSearchContext();
+	rightContext = new KorapSearchContext();
+    };
+
+    public class KorapSearchContext {
+	private boolean type = true;
+	private short length = 6;
+	private short maxLength = 12;
+
+	public boolean isToken () {
+	    return this.type;
+	};
+
+	public boolean isCharacter () {
+	    return !(this.type);
+	};
+
+	public KorapSearchContext setToken (boolean value) {
+	    this.type = value;
+	    return this;
+	};
+
+	public KorapSearchContext setCharacter (boolean value) {
+	    this.type = !(value);
+	    return this;
+	};
+
+	public short getLength() {
+	    return this.length;
+	};
+
+	public KorapSearchContext setLength (short value) {
+	    if (value >= 0) {
+		if (value <= maxLength) {
+		    this.length = value;
+		}
+		else {
+		    this.length = this.maxLength;
+		}
+	    };
+	    return this;
+	};
+
+	public KorapSearchContext setLength (int value) {
+	    return this.setLength((short) value);
+	};
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch (String json) {
+	ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+	try {
+	    JsonNode rootNode = mapper.readValue(json, JsonNode.class);
+
+	    this.query = new KorapQuery("tokens").fromJSON(rootNode.get("query")).toQuery();
+	}
+	catch (IOException e) {
+	};
+    };
+
+
+    // Maybe accept queryWrapperStuff
+    public KorapSearch (SpanQueryWrapperInterface sqwi) {
+	this.query = sqwi.toQuery();
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch (SpanQuery sq) {
+	this.query = sq;
+    };
+
+    public SpanQuery getQuery () {
+	return this.query;
+    };
+
+    public int getStartIndex () {
+	return this.startIndex;
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch setStartIndex (int value) {
+	if (value >= 0) {
+	    this.startIndex = value;
+	}
+	else {
+	    this.startIndex = 0;
+	};
+
+	return this;
+    };
+
+    public short getCount () {
+	return this.count;
+    };
+
+    public short getCountMax () {
+	return this.countMax;
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch setCount (int value) {
+	this.setCount((short) value);
+	return this;
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch setCount (short value) {
+	if (value > 0) {
+	    if (value <= this.countMax) {
+		this.count = value;
+	    }
+	    else {
+		this.count = this.countMax;
+	    };
+	};
+	return this;
+    };
+
+    public KorapSearch setCollection (KorapCollection kc) {
+	this.collection = kc;
+	return this;
+    };
+
+    public KorapCollection getCollection () {
+	if (this.collection == null)
+	    this.collection = new KorapCollection();
+
+	return this.collection;
+    };
+
+    public KorapResult run (KorapIndex ki) {
+	this.getCollection().setIndex(ki);
+	return ki.search(this.getCollection(), this);
+    };
+};
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/main/resources/korap.conf b/src/main/resources/korap.conf
index debbd62..c28b0c3 100644
--- a/src/main/resources/korap.conf
+++ b/src/main/resources/korap.conf
@@ -1,5 +1,15 @@
 # Lucene Backend properties
 lucene.properties = true
 lucene.index = /home/ndiewald/Repositories/korap/KorAP-modules/KorAP-lucene-index/sandbox/index
-lucene.index.commit.count = 10000
-lucene.index.commit.log = log/korap.commit.log
\ No newline at end of file
+lucene.index.commit.count = 134217000;
+lucene.index.commit.log = log/korap.commit.log
+
+# Not active at the moment:
+lucene.index.search.count.default = 25
+lucene.index.search.count.max = 100
+lucene.index.search.context.left.type = token
+lucene.index.search.context.left.default = 6
+lucene.index.search.context.left.max = 12
+lucene.index.search.context.right.type = token
+lucene.index.search.context.right.default = 6
+lucene.index.search.context.right.max = 12
diff --git a/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..705bf33
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/search/TestKorapSearch.java
@@ -0,0 +1,118 @@
+import java.util.*;
+import java.io.*;
+
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapSearch;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapQuery;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapIndex;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapFilter;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.KorapResult;
+import java.nio.file.Files;
+import java.nio.file.FileSystem;
+import java.nio.file.Path;
+import java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets;
+import java.nio.ByteBuffer;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.*;
+import org.junit.Test;
+import org.junit.Ignore;
+import org.junit.runner.RunWith;
+import org.junit.runners.JUnit4;
+
+@RunWith(JUnit4.class)
+public class TestKorapSearch {
+    @Test
+    public void searchCount () {
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(
+	    new KorapQuery("field1").seg("a").with("b")
+        );
+	// Count:
+	ks.setCount(30);
+	assertEquals(ks.getCount(), 30);
+	ks.setCount(20);
+	assertEquals(ks.getCount(), 20);
+	ks.setCount(-50);
+	assertEquals(ks.getCount(), 20);
+	ks.setCount(500);
+	assertEquals(ks.getCount(), ks.getCountMax());
+    };
+
+    @Test
+    public void searchStartIndex () {
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(
+	    new KorapQuery("field1").seg("a").with("b")
+        );
+	// startIndex
+	ks.setStartIndex(5);
+	assertEquals(ks.getStartIndex(), 5);
+	ks.setStartIndex(1);
+	assertEquals(ks.getStartIndex(), 1);
+	ks.setStartIndex(0);
+	assertEquals(ks.getStartIndex(), 0);
+	ks.setStartIndex(70);
+	assertEquals(ks.getStartIndex(), 70);
+	ks.setStartIndex(-5);
+	assertEquals(ks.getStartIndex(), 0);
+    };
+
+    @Test
+    public void searchQuery () {
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(
+	    new KorapQuery("field1").seg("a").with("b")
+        );
+	// query
+	assertEquals(ks.getQuery().toString(), "spanNear([field1:a, field1:b], -1, false)");
+    };
+
+    @Test
+    public void searchIndex () throws IOException {
+
+	// Construct index
+	KorapIndex ki = new KorapIndex();
+	// Indexing test files
+	for (String i : new String[] {"00001", "00002", "00003", "00004", "00005", "00006", "02439"}) {
+	    ki.addDocFile(
+	      getClass().getResource("/wiki/" + i + ".json.gz").getFile(), true
+            );
+	};
+	ki.commit();
+
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(
+	    new KorapQuery("tokens").seg("s:Buchstaben")
+	);
+	ks.getCollection().filter(
+            new KorapFilter().and("textClass", "reisen")
+        );
+	ks.setCount(3);
+	ks.setStartIndex(5);
+	ks.leftContext.setLength(1);
+	ks.rightContext.setLength(1);
+	KorapResult kr = ks.run(ki);
+	assertEquals(6, kr.totalResults());
+	assertEquals(kr.getMatch(0).getSnippetBrackets(), "... dem [Buchstaben] A ...");
+    };
+
+    @Test
+    public void searchJSON () throws IOException {
+
+	String jsonFile = getClass().getResource("/queries/bsp1.json").getFile();
+
+	KorapSearch ks = new KorapSearch(getString(jsonFile));
+
+	// assertEquals(ks.getQuery().toString(), "");
+    };
+
+    public static String getString (String path) {
+	StringBuilder contentBuilder = new StringBuilder();
+	try {
+	    BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(path));
+	    String str;
+	    while ((str = in.readLine()) != null) {
+		contentBuilder.append(str);
+	    };
+	    in.close();
+	} catch (IOException e) {
+	}
+	return contentBuilder.toString();
+    };
+
+};