there needs to be a change in the funding for search
I concur completely. If memory serves (not as good as it once was) I seem to recall an initive was suggested quite sometime back, at the time, via the IATA framework, but was abandoned for whatever reason. I wonder if any new thought process is occuring now. If so, you can be assured it will take a lot of time to accomplish. And, I hope you are correct re BEA search activity.