The document discusses improvements made to the VIVO search engine between versions 1.2.1 and 1.3. Version 1.3 transitioned from Lucene to SOLR, allowing it to index additional data from semantic relationships and interconnectivity. This enriched the search index and provided more relevant results with better ranking compared to version 1.2.1. Indexing was also improved through multithreading, reducing indexing time. Experiments were discussed to further enhance search quality through techniques like query expansion, spelling correction, and using ontologies for fact-based questioning.