[wp-meta] [Making WordPress.org] #5771: Temporarily disable site-wide search on WordPress.org

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#5771: Temporarily disable site-wide search on WordPress.org
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 Reporter:  tellyworth          |      Owner:  (none)
     Type:  task                |     Status:  new
 Priority:  highest omg bbq     |  Milestone:
Component:  WordPress.org Site  |   Keywords:
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 Recently it has emerged that the global site search results as shown on
 `wordpress.org/search` contain paid ads. Currently we have no control over
 this. Red tape prevents the ads from simply being turned off.

 Various long term solutions are being investigated. In the meantime, as a
 matter of urgency, I propose that we temporarily **disable global search
 on WordPress.org** and replace it with subsite-specific searches where
 local WordPress-managed search is available (e.g. for the plugin and theme
 directories).

 Specifically:

 1. Immediately the Google site search code from `/search/`.
 2. Replace the `/search/` page with a placeholder page directing users to
 content searches on various sub-sites (`/plugins/search/foo`,
 `/themes/seach/foo`, `https://developer.wordpress.org/search/foo`, etc)
 3. Tweak and limit search queries on sites like the support forums that
 currently can't run searches for performance reasons. (Limit queries to
 the last n posts, only search titles, etc)
 4. Remove redirects that currently hijack some search queries to the
 global page (e.g. `/support/?s=foo` -> `/search/foo`).

 Note that this is a **temporary measure** which will be reverted once a
 better solution has been rolled out. Several different possible long-term
 solutions are being discussed elsewhere, but they could take some time to
 implement.

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