It's encouraging that someone is still thinking about how to make search better. There's surprisingly little work going on in that area any more. Vast amounts of effort are going into search engine optimization. Even trying to find any work on search engine improvement is difficult, because search results for that subject are buried under "search engine optimization" content.
There's a "Search Quality Alliance".[1] That seemed promising until I found out what it was.
[1] http://searchqualityalliance.org/