Further tangent: Many of the public search boxes are backed by elasticsearch or other similar “recommendation” tools which are optimized for speed and point-so

Further tangent: Many of the public search boxes are backed by elasticsearch or other similar “recommendation” tools which are optimized for speed and point-someone-in-the-right-direction accuracy. Since we no longer have exact text matching or many of the advanced operators (such as `not`), I’d argue that for sophisticated searches search boxes have actually gotten significantly worse.