We're finishing up the last few bits of the big search engine / dictionary organization overhaul now (the last major cross-platform piece of 2.3) and there are two search engine features that we haven't done much work on yet and are still trying to decide whether or not to continue fully supporting:
1) English wildcard search - a feature so rare most people don't even know it exists, but you can actually use the @ and $ wildcard characters in non-fulltext English-Chinese searches just as in Chinese-English ones. I'm not sure why we bothered to add it, though - probably much more useful for people learning English - and it presents enough problems for merged multi-dict search that we're wondering whether or not we should keep it.
2) Chinese fulltext search - we know this one does see some use, but does anybody actually use this to look for words in 21cn/Guifan/etc definitions, or are you just using it to find more example sentences? Would a separate command to search for examples containing a particular word work equally well for you?
1) English wildcard search - a feature so rare most people don't even know it exists, but you can actually use the @ and $ wildcard characters in non-fulltext English-Chinese searches just as in Chinese-English ones. I'm not sure why we bothered to add it, though - probably much more useful for people learning English - and it presents enough problems for merged multi-dict search that we're wondering whether or not we should keep it.
2) Chinese fulltext search - we know this one does see some use, but does anybody actually use this to look for words in 21cn/Guifan/etc definitions, or are you just using it to find more example sentences? Would a separate command to search for examples containing a particular word work equally well for you?