Slightly tangential: I would like to see a new search engine & index focused much more aggressively with much more powerful search capabilities as an interactiv

Slightly tangential: I would like to see a new search engine & index focused much more aggressively with much more powerful search capabilities as an interactive console. That is to say, I'd like to be able to use a search engine much like a relational database. Intersection, unions, grouping, etc. Up to and including batch jobs computing statistical analyses of the systems. I don't know any immediate business case for such a system, nor the research state of search... but I still want it!