@Tim H. - I do think that Ted works in some larger organisation because I have experienced how companies and organisations change as they grow. At first there is a small dedicated band of people who share some goal. They innovate more and make decisions faster. Then as success and growth come, the small group isn't enough. New people have to be brought in, hierarchies emerge, processes must be defined and slowly the original core of innovators take flight. I've been through this. It is a natural progression. I've seen how qualified professionals sometimes become closed and cannot see past the next step in a predefined process to an obvious conclusion.

I didn't get the necessity for a "scientific" case analysis comparison to demonstrate the preferability of my search tool over the wordpress.org search. It seems pretty obvious that having search filter options is preferable to not having search filter options in a search tool. The only reason I could imagine the need for such a study would be if someone was paying me to do it.

If Ted really does work for WordPress we may wake to an announcement soonish that WordPress.org has developed a new improved search interface for the plugins repository - after extensive third party testing. :)