Search engine

Well, we've had the search engine on for about a day, and so far things 
seem good. Load on the database server is still fairly light; it's got 
a lot of idle time and I've never seen the load average peak over 1.0.

I've just made some fixes to the search so it should try to match all 
given search terms by default, which is what most people expect (google 
has trained them well!) and it should do a better job of highlighting 
search terms in the results than it was doing. It's still not perfect 
though... I'd particularly appreciate feedback from people using 
non-Latin scripts (Chinese, Japanese, Hebrew, Arabic, Cyrillic, and the 
Indic scripts) as to how well it can find things.

Note that the "go" button is usually the default if you hit enter in 
the search field and "go" is very idiosyncratic, often sending people 
to insanely unrelated pages. That also needs to be fixed up.

-- brion vibber (brion @ pobox.com)

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