diff --git a/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/AbstractModelObject.java b/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/AbstractModelObject.java
index 6214af95d16d6989df8158ff5e456838ea6a19e2..c104a3179c1ac7e087d75a240e888c1802d1947a 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/AbstractModelObject.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/hudson/model/AbstractModelObject.java
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@
  */
 package hudson.model;
 
+import hudson.search.SearchFactory;
 import org.kohsuke.stapler.StaplerRequest;
 import org.kohsuke.stapler.StaplerResponse;
 import org.kohsuke.stapler.Stapler;
@@ -99,6 +100,11 @@ public abstract class AbstractModelObject implements SearchableModelObject {
     }
 
     public Search getSearch() {
+        for (SearchFactory sf : SearchFactory.all()) {
+            Search s = sf.createFor(this);
+            if (s!=null)
+                return s;
+        }
         return new Search();
     }
 
diff --git a/core/src/main/java/hudson/search/SearchFactory.java b/core/src/main/java/hudson/search/SearchFactory.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..5f01917dba77a0b7cd2c034071b826fe8aa05d94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/src/main/java/hudson/search/SearchFactory.java
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+package hudson.search;
+
+import hudson.Extension;
+import hudson.ExtensionList;
+import hudson.ExtensionPoint;
+import jenkins.model.Jenkins;
+
+/**
+ * Creates a {@link Search} instance for a {@link SearchableModelObject}.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * This allows you to plug in different backends to the search, such as full-text search,
+ * or more intelligent user-sensitive search, etc. Puts @{@link Extension} annotation
+ * on your implementation to have it registered.
+ *
+ * <p>
+ * Right now, there's no user control over which {@link SearchFactory} takes priority,
+ * but we may do so later.
+ *
+ * @author Kohsuke Kawaguchi
+ * @since 1.469
+ */
+public abstract class SearchFactory implements ExtensionPoint {
+    /**
+     * Creates a {@link Search} object.
+     *
+     * This method needs to execute quickly (without actually executing any search),
+     * since it is created per incoming HTTP response.
+     *
+     * @param owner
+     *      The {@link SearchableModelObject} object for which we are creating the search.
+     *      The returned object will provide the search for this object.
+     * @return
+     *      null if your factory isn't interested in creating a {@link Search} object.
+     *      The next factory will get a chance to act on it.
+     */
+    public abstract Search createFor(SearchableModelObject owner);
+
+    /**
+     * Returns all the registered {@link SearchFactory} instances.
+     */
+    public static ExtensionList<SearchFactory> all() {
+        return Jenkins.getInstance().getExtensionList(SearchFactory.class);
+    }
+}