I posted this as a response to a similar issue but feel this needs to have it's own thread to see if you guys are willing to look into fixing this issue with the K2 Search Plugin.

I was having an issue with the K2 Plugin. I looked on the forums and saw that one of the issues was the Smart Search for K2. My issue was not the Smart Search (which was slowing things down), but more with the Search Tags. The search may have been working but you would have to wait 10 minutes to see anything. I turned that off and now it's faster. There has to be a way to fix this. Tags need to be searchable on the site otherwise what's the point? Something for the development team to work on perhaps.

The site I am building for my client has over 1200 articles and growing (it's a quarterly magazine website). They need to have their tags searchable and we use K2 for the articles. Do you see anyway to resolve this solution in the near future?

Thanks for your attention to this.
Michael M. Kadrie

Michael please do not double post.
I have replied to your issue here:
www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/45142-solved-error-after-upgrade

I only started this thread because the other one was marked as "Solved" and you told me you couldn't help via a ticket and to post on the Forum, so that is why this thread was created.

You can reply to any topic you like since we do not lock topics.
Even if a user found/ shared the solution it does not necessarily mean that it is a universal solution.

The helpdesk is reserved for commercial products, this is why I asked you to post on the public forum.

Got it. Thanks.

I am including a link to our conversation if any user stumbles upon this thread -> www.joomlaworks.net/forum/k2-en/45231-k2-search-plugin-improvements-needed

I have implemented this method in a K2 site containing 500k+ items with each item containing 4 - 7 tags at least.

You can understand the impact of such a query and the solution that Google Provides.