I repost here the comment I submitted to this news: http://hq.deviantart.com/journal/36611766/ so people doesn't need to navigathe trough the 3000+ comments to find it XD
Feel free to elaborate and comment!
I think that this limit is a needed patch to a buggy search system, made in a hurry.
I am new to DA, but reading all those comments, I think the entire way we search should need a refinement DURING the search, with tags proposed to us.
Imagine the search page divided in 2 parts vertically: on left, the tag search and on the right the images changing (they can be the first 1000 in the list of every step).
Case: I need a stock image of