User blog comment:Dopp/New Global Search, plus Updates to Local Search/@comment-1724320-20120509184346/@comment-118323-20120509190145

Cook -- great questions.
 * We're still tinkering with the quality of snippets. It's a game of give-and-take because what is relevant for one result (i.e. content inside an infobox) is junk for another result. There are also lots of edgecases we haven't investigated yet.
 * Ditto for bullet point #1.
 * Including the URL under the result has a couple of design and UI related goals. We will be focusing on how to differentiate namespaces on results, outside of just the URL.
 * Good question. Will investigate.
 * The Multimedia tab needs a LOT of design love. This is a personal pet peeve of mine.
 * The typo correction is in it's first week of release. We'll be making more fixes as we learn how it is working and failing.