Thanks Jeff, that makes sense, if that is indeed the case. It wasn’t clear that the results were being truncated (if that is the case) after pressing show more. I just thought that was the actual number of results.
I imagine “search” must be a pretty noisy term. I am surprised that this topic appears in those results, I suppose “search” is the first word in the topic name, so it’s given a higher weighting?
When I use the search I only ever tend to look for something that I saw a while ago. The use case is when somebody asks a question that I know I’ve seen the answer to some time ago.
Still, the topic you were looking for was started Feb 25 '14. That’s much more recent than, say, August 2013.
I find that people generally want more recent topics first in search results, though it could be a mild effect of simply shuffling year+ old topics to the back of the results.