There are some folks who'd like NBP searching to be more like Google et al - and there are some of us who think it's fine as-is.
What happens when you take a very simple syntax, plus some kind of enclosing characters (parens, braces, square brackets, whatever) to enclose regex expressions?
For instance, -(RRR) means not any posts that the regex expression RRR returns true for? (using whatever set of logical characters best make sense - and maybe even insisting that there be no whitespace between the logical character and the opening enclosing character.) Oh, and no nesting. Should be simple to parse, would satisfy the "like Google" request, and the default would be that it continued to work as it is.
Thoughts? Could be a very stupid idea - I haven't taken the time to really think it through.