Yes and yes. READ ALL THE POSTS. BE INVOLVED. GARGH. (But seriously, if you have any constructive ideas about how to mitigate that effect or to push it towards something you'd enjoy more, please do share.)

And, yes. The Search page has been broken for a month or so. I still don't know what's wrong with it. In the mean time I've put up the old (really old) Old Search. It's borderline useless, but it actually filters results according to input queries, so... enjoy?