Search, internal and external, needs help

NumPy docs search gets sold short both by Google and the internal search box.

Google search on ‘numpy’ returns:

The first hit doesn’t look like a useful page, and for a long time I didn’t see the NumPy Documentation link on the last line. The next hit seems to be the docs, but it’s an old version. Calling it up returns a page that says

which is a useful warning, but the link takes you to another old version:

Internal search has problems too. I’d seen a Numpy basics page and wanted to return to it:

When I search for “numpy basics,” it’s not there:

I wasn’t surprised to see complaints about both types of search in the SciPy survey. I could investigate how search can be improved – or the fixes might be left to an expert and I’d just open an issue. But repairing search shouldn’t be neglected.