Your method works, sort of, but for those of us who depending heavily on Post Date it really increases the workload.

I normally search on a particular set of terms every day or two, by Post Date. Nothing turns up after May 28th. I tried searching by Forum and by Author, and did find a few posts dated after May 28th, but that was by spot checking 176 pages of results!

So I tried searching by Relevance and limiting the results to the last 3 days, and got no results.

I'd say indexing and/or search are still broken.