while we're chaging things, perhaps it'd be better to set the pagination mode in bind_api(), since that's where it gets set in all other cases. We could pass `search_api = True` or `pagination_mode = "search"` to bind_api(). We'd best be careful if "cursor" remains in `allowed_param` if we do this (as `bind_api()` will set `pagination_mode = "cursor"` in this case).