You are right, it's just a gimmik and with all the distraction and false readings could even cost you sales ...one really needs the best -and dummy proof- results possible. Search results, when a potential customer is browsing your site is not something to take likely or play with.
One thing you should be serious about and that's upgrading to another search solution if you are using x-cart's default, my sales increased dramatically as soon as I dumpped it. (unless maybe your searches don't need to be that defined) ...so well they've gone even with text based search results (like google, for ex) that I've been hesitant to change to another search such as
http://www.websitecm.com/x-cart-mods/relevant-search-results.html
hehe... that's his name? Yeah PhilJ is cool dude
...really helped me out with install issues regarding his FAQ mod ...just installed the new (for me) progress bar, awesome mod! -not the best looking out there, but still functional and better than none
