Actually, I've been playing with it since I saw the thread, and it tolerated and responded pretty well to searches for Yoko Kanno and Delirium.

I'm even finding new music I like. Seems to work.

Anand

Unfortunately, a lot of the alternatives are like, "let's make something new, that's going to suck for the near future until we get the kinks worked out." Sure, they'll eventually become something great but for the present they're not really appropriate for a major project like KDE.

Well, I can't speak to the maturity of the others, but Vesta is the result of over a decade of R&D and has been in production use for microprocessor design projects at Compaq and Intel for over 6 years. Vesta's period of "trying something new" happened a long time ago, and the kinks have been worked out for years.

That's not to suggest that it's static (Intel employs two full-time software engineers to work on it), but it's been stable for a long time.

How convenient -- an online database in which someone who wants to commit a sex crime can find a neighborhood where someone else is sure to be blamed

Did the registered offender actually commit the crime? Well, it's a bit hard for the police to question him now that he's been lynched.