User blog comment:Dopp/New Global Search, plus Updates to Local Search/@comment-755865-20120513155524/@comment-118323-20120514180739

Thanks for the helpful feedback! Tuning relevance is going to be an ongoing task for our Search Team until the end of time, as there is never any "final" relevance we can acheive.

Different people search in many different ways. We optimized cross-wiki search for topic-based searches, such as "Star Wars" or "Call of Duty". Results from genre-based searches ("books", "jobs") and question-based searches ("Who is the lead character of Lost?") are not optimal yet. We hope to get there soon! We won't be making many public statements on this tuning, but they'll be constantly happening behind the scenes.