This document summarizes an update on searching in Drupal. It discusses improvements to the views user interface for searching, how Drupal's core search works and its SQL, and three patches to improve core search SQL performance. It also briefly mentions other search options like fuzzy search and faceted search. The document focuses on views-based searching and provides an overview of core search indexing, ranking, and queries. It examines the SQL for AND, OR, and exclude queries and proposes solutions to improve performance.