private static Hits getHitsForAStringyQuery(String q) throws IOException {
        // Pardon the weird name, we just didn't want to call it a query string
        final Configuration CONFIGURATION = DEdConfiguration.create();
        NutchBean bean = new NutchBean(CONFIGURATION);
        Query query = Query.parse(q, CONFIGURATION);
        Hits hits = bean.search(query, 10);
        return hits;
    }