True story I once had a discussion with a developer about search in general like for your website, for the internet and the difficulties involved. Precision vs

True story I once had a discussion with a developer about search in general like for your website, for the internet and the difficulties involved. Precision vs recall, relevancy vs popularity, ranking etc. He was dumbfounded that i would want to spend two weeks 'tunning Solr queries' for a project. He asked( nay stated) "Why ? Search is a solved problem ?" We no longer talk to each other.