Adaptive Hypermedia Systems (AHS) have long been concentrating on adaptive guidance of links between domain concepts. Here we show parallels between navigation and linking in adaptive hypermedia on the one hand and information searching or querying on the other hand. We present a transition towards search in AHS by aligning the web search process with the layered structure of AHS and adaptation process. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.3.3 [Information Search and Retrieval]: Search process; H.5.4 [Hypertext/Hypermedia]: Architectures General Terms Design, Human Factors