Yup..the idea is why force a user to select a forum from a dropdown or select list before finding where the term may exist. Now you search it and then you can decide with a single click what forum you want to filter in.

Our average search on the old engine was over 30 seconds.

I'm still toying with the stemming logic and want to decide if we want to search for say "servo" if we should deliver "servos" too or vice versa. We can change the algorithm so it ONLY finds the exact word you put in and does not stem to find plurals or variants (i.e. flying, fly). It was suggested to me that we should stem words. Alternately if we don't you could simply do a wildcard like servo? or servo* where servo? would find servos, servon, servot and servo* would find servotronics, servomatic, servorama, etc. This comes down to preference maybe. I like exact hits. Some others like the stemming. This is mostly what I'd like feedback on.