cast about vs search

cast about

verb
  • To try to find; look around; search. 

  • To plan; plot; contrive. 

search

verb
  • To look in (a place) for something. 

  • To look thoroughly. 

noun
  • The act of searching in general. 

  • An attempt to find something. 

How often have the words cast about and search occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )