User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-1318845-20120514021946/@comment-4674838-20120515041537

TL;DR

Wikia: "Search is a critical component of the global Wikia interface. It should behave similarly across all Wikia wikis to yield a consistent experience across the network. We wish to improve our search by surfacing the search tool, hopefully making it function like a proper search engine ought to (hint: google actually searches), collecting valuable search data, oh, and, did we mention we get to display more ads in the process?"

Group B: "Local communities should manage ourselves and how our content that we produce is presented. This ought to include admins having the freedom to modify search on a per-wiki basis to meet the needs of the local community."

Wikia: "We respect that point of view, but as far as search goes, that's not the direction we're taking our company."

TL;DR was TL;DR

Wikia: "We're building an empire. Ducks fall in line."

Ducks: "Who taught you how to be a duck keeper :P"