Calm down. It's okay. I know. You've been hurt before.
We've decided to outsource the search engine to people who are really good at search engines. Flaptor have a hosted search product called IndexTank that we're now running on and have been for about the last 24 hours. They're smart folk and the product works fantastically.The new engine supports Lucene syntax (so you can say something like author:ketralnis search reddit:announcements), is updated in real-time, has great results, and is pretty bloody fast.
I'd like to thank our beta testers at /r/betateam for helping us test it (we'll have a beta-tester award coming soon for you). They helped us work most of the kinks out (which is important because the search code was pretty kinky) and did a really great job of keeping a lid on the upcoming feature, which made it much easier to get right instead of being rushed. Thanks to Flaptor, who has some really amazing engineers behind the scenes that worked tirelessly to get this fantastic product right and get it live.
We also created /r/search as a place to post interesting or funny searches, and violentacrez and our fine betateam created a search FAQ wiki.
Also, we've hired a big guy named Vinnie to search and destroy the next person to make a "search sucks" self-post. Haha, just kidding, we can't afford to hire anyone.
