Have you ever used a new piece of technology and immediately wished you could poke around inside — “How’d they do that?” Us too! Luckily, the open source ethos that informs everything we do means that the guts of the new Jetpack Search are there for the poking. 

For a change this big, we also thought it’d be useful to share why we felt large changes to our architecture were necessary in order to improve the search experience.