queryText = "<QueryPacket xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search.Query' Revision='1000'>";
queryText += "<Query>";
queryText += "<Context>";
queryText += "<QueryText language='en-US' type='MSSQLFT'>";
queryText += "SELECT Title, Rank, Size, Description, Write, Path FROM portal..scope() WHERE CONTAINS ('test') ORDER BY "Rank" DESC";
queryText += "</QueryText>";
queryText += "</Context>";
queryText += "</Query>";
queryText += "</QueryPacket>";


alert(queryText);


$().SPServices({
    operation: "Query",
    queryXml: queryText,
    completefunc: searchComplete
});

<QueryPacket xmlns='urn:Microsoft.Search.Query' Revision='1000'><Query><Context><QueryText language='en-US' type='MSSQLFT'>SELECT Title, Rank, Size, Description, Write, Path FROM portal..scope() WHERE CONTAINS ('test') ORDER BY "Rank" DESC</QueryText></Context></Query></QueryPacket>

<ResponsePacket xmlns="urn:Microsoft.Search.Response"><Response domain=""><Status>ERROR_BAD_QUERY</Status><DebugErrorMessage>Your query is malformed. Please rephrase your query.</DebugErrorMessage></Response></ResponsePacket>

FROM Scope() WHERE "scope"='All Sites'

queryText += "SELECT Title, Rank, Size, Description, Write, Path FROM Scope() WHERE CONTAINS ('test') ORDER BY "Rank" DESC";