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Investigate, and if appropriate, implement two MediaWiki extensions. The first is “Keep Searches” (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:KeepSearches) which addresses Brian's idea of capturing and displaying recent wiki search terms in a cloud. The second would be an interim enhancement to MW search functionality - install a Google search extension http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:GoogleSiteSearch. This may be replaced at a later time by LucentSearch (http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:Lucene-search).

Here's a listing of MW search extensions, for reference: http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Category:Search_extensions