It seems more like the writer is advocating "search configuration included with the results" vs "search configuration as a separate page"; which I agree with. T

It seems more like the writer is advocating "search configuration included with the results" vs "search configuration as a separate page"; which I agree with. That being said, I don't refer to "search configuration as a separate page" as "advanced search". Rather, advanced search to me is just search with more options (to filter, generally, but also sort, etc). As a general rule, automatically entering into search with EVERY available option visible tends to be a bad idea; leaving to analysis paralysis. Rather, I like the idea of starting off with the most common filters; and allowing the user to ask for more (advanced search, I guess?). If possible, filters should be faceted (with counts), as noted by simonw in another thread.