User blog comment:Dopp/New Global Search, plus Updates to Local Search/@comment-1724320-20120509184346/@comment-1724320-20120509193733

Thanks Trevor. I'm also noticing that in some cases, when I search for the name of a page that exists but also has a category by that name, it won't bring up the mainspace article in the search results (see here). It turns out that the page name shows up on the sixth page as the 31st result. That doesn't seem right.

I also think it would be better if, when there is a redirect listed in the search results, the URL listed is that of the actual page instead of the redirect. Is there some reason you wouldn't want the name of the search result and the URL to match?

Two other things -- if you click on the "Advanced" tab and then click back to the "Content" tab, the search results will be for Content, but it will still display as the Advanced tab. See this. Also, can you make it so we can view more than six entries at once, whether that's by default or using ? 6 seems like a very small number given the inaccuracy of the search so far, and there are certain situations where it's useful to view 100 or 500 search results at once.