User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-1724320-20120509011819

I am worried about the prospects of including redirects in the search suggest. While that may be a solution for some wikis, a couple of us have tried to solve the search problem in the past by creating as many redirects as possible, often with the assistance of SearchDigest. Take a look at the list of redirects for a single page on the RuneScape Wiki; will those really look good showing up on a search suggest? Is there any way to let us differentiate between these sort of search-related redirects that would be unnecessary with a good search engine (typos, plurals) and those that are actually content based (alternate names, section headers)? Could you create a magic word that we could put on redirects to make them appear in the search suggest?

I would also like to see more focus on the use of section headers in searches. In many cases, searching for the name of a section header from a page doesn't even bring up that page in the results. Maybe do something like Google does where anchor links are shown in the search results?

Finally, the typo correction is just awful. Compared to Google or even other sites' search engines, it barely does anything. Please try to correct this.