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Enable advanced search by default for global search scope

What does this MR do?

Issue #197231

This MR turns on Advanced Search features (backed by Elasticsearch) for Global Search scope even if index limiting is turned on for projects/namespaces.

Documentation updates are included to call out feature behavior changes. The changes include an option to allow users to revert a search back to basic search by modifying the URL.

Note: See the issue for background on the why

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Does this MR meet the acceptance criteria?

Conformity

Availability and Testing

Security

If this MR contains changes to processing or storing of credentials or tokens, authorization and authentication methods and other items described in the security review guidelines:

  • [-] Label as security and @ mention @gitlab-com/gl-security/appsec
  • [-] The MR includes necessary changes to maintain consistency between UI, API, email, or other methods
  • [-] Security reports checked/validated by a reviewer from the AppSec team
Edited by Terri Chu

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