Haha.. well.. yes.. it is an improvement, but I still drool every time I use Google... I guess what I'd like to see is sorting matches by relevance--perhaps by the number of times something appears in a post or better yet--the proximity of the words you're searching for...
I.e. if you search for "big apple", posts that contain the phrase "big apple" will appear before posts that contain "my you've gotten big. Do you like apples?"
There.. someone code that