It’s about time. I always had to go to the big ‘G’ Google to find anything I wanted WordPress related when it came to plugins. Now you can do it easily from their site. Here’s the news release.
http://wordpress.org/development/2009/02/new-and-improved-plugins-directory-search/
Claims that they have upgraded to a new ‘Sphinx’ search engine and left the old one behind. Also works in your WordPress Dashboard too. Thanks guys!
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