Feb-1-2016
Current search status We have two search services running side by side, for v2 and v3 protocols and we are in the process of unifying them for operational simplicity mostly. During this process we have found some bugs in the search indexer, and by fixing them along with some minor changes to the boosting algorithm we believe we have overall better results and better testability.
The new search is now being tested here - http://nuget-prod-0-v2v3search.azurewebsites.net/query?q=jil and it will show jil as first.
Algorithm description In general we look in the id, description, title and tags and we boost somewhat by downloads (but only for top packages). So potentially packages that have the same term in both id, description, title and tag might get a better score than one that have it just in the id.