Thanks for your valuable contribution to the Odoo community. I would like to know if you have any plans on adding additional modules to this project to cover frontend search including:
CMS
Forum
News
Jobs
Documentation
Ecommerce
Events
Products/Shop
I think there is a great need to have an integrated FTS functionality for searching the frontend. I think this would be best accomplished through a single search field for use on any page in the frontend with possible dropdown or checkboxes to search between different filters (eg. forum, news, shop, etc.).
It would be useful to integrate a basic type of ajax auto-search type dropdown (similar to http://start.searchanise.com/) with around 5-10 entries along with an area for thumbnails, title and short description (and possibly price for products, events, etc) as well as splitting off into filters (eg. forum, news, events, etc.) for searches that have not selected any specific category. An option via a dropdown menu for filters by forum, news, shop, etc. could then be offered to narrow down the results.
If you are interested in discussing the possibilities as well as possible funding for this type of project please let me know, as I would be interested in discussing this with you in more detail.