Thread:Talk:Search/LiquidThreads archive/'Old search' is better/reply (2)

English Wikipedia. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned it. I'm no SEO guy, but it's as if the "new" search has lost the ability to weight results depending on where they occur within an article. Specifically, I'd been surprised to see that if there was a mention of one my search terms -- say, the word "documentary"  --  even in a reference or an external link, as opposed to the actual body text of the article. the new search would return those results near the top. "Old" search seems to be to be much closer to what I get in a Google search, which is to say, the search function would have the intelligence to distinguish been non-trivial and trivial mentions, somehow.