User blog comment:Dopp/Technical Update: February 7, 2012/@comment-3279487-20120207223307/@comment--20120208061935

We make no bones about it: the search experience on Wikia has not been exemplary for a while, this bug aside. We are aware of some of the issues but unfortunately most of the engineering work in the last few years has simply been to keep up with growth of the number of pages we have to index. It's not an unwillingness to fix it, it's a resource problem. As long as people keep adding awesome content, we have to keep scaling the indexing instead of tweaking other important things.