Salvete! A little while ago, I sent this message to the listserv about improving Koha's search. http://lists.katipo.co.nz/pipermail/koha/2012-July/033634.html There's good news. Mike Rylander and Galen Charlton have encouraged us to use some of the Evergreen community's search code. Adapting their QueryParser from Evergreen 1.6+ results in a big savings since we won't have to reinvent the wheel. Jared will be adapting this code to work with Koha pro bono. Thankfully, a couple of sponsors stepped forward to help make things happen. With their generous support, we have pledges totaling about $6500. The magic number is $9000 to get this off of the ground. At $9000 patrons will actually be able to make use of fielded simple searches, and the new unambiguous query syntax. At $15000 we'll have a new and improved advanced search. At $18000, we'll be looking at faster searches, and after every single component thereafter, life will just get better. For more information on the nuts and bolts, please do check out the wiki at wiki.koha-community.org/wiki/C_%26_P_Search_Rewrite_RFC feel free to leave your feedback since we want this to work right for everyone. To track our funding progress, there's a thermometer up at C&P http://www.cpbibliography.com/services/koha/searchrewrite.html We look forward to fixing this together soon! Cheers, Brooke