Thread:Talk:Search/status/New "insource:" syntax, etc./reply

You can't hammer the servers too much, pool counter is pretty small for regex searches ;-) I'll leave it to Nik to say how late/early in result processing it handles regular expressions.

Yes, most punctuation and so forth is ignored for non-regex searches. insource: searches a different field `source_text` instead of `text`, the latter of which is configured with all kinds of language-specific bells and whistles to make it better at finding content for the majority of readers.

The first paragraph weighting isn't as nice on the PHP side as I'd like. It uses the pretty naïve approach you outline there, where it just uses stuff before the first heading which isn't necessarily the best.