Quantum, I tried to help you and you came out of left field with the 'Yahoo tracks all your searches' comment. I'm not sure why you thought that was relevant. I thought providing you with a list of links to some good articles (did you read any of them?!) would help enlighten you on the situation.
One article in particular had to do with an architect dealing with the lack of procedural/workflow manuals for the open source apps and his efforts to get a consortium of folks together to handle the task.
Once you let go of your fear of search you will be able to answer a question like this on your own.