diff --git a/modules/node.module b/modules/node.module
index f7e998d131b1a4282234af6049b267eec862b269..7cb9dd859d7ebbef575c1682140d7545f472555a 100644
--- a/modules/node.module
+++ b/modules/node.module
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ function node_search($op = 'search', $keys = null) {
       // Output form for defining rank factor weights.
       $form['content_ranking'] = array('#type' => 'fieldset', '#title' => t('Content ranking'));
       $form['content_ranking']['#theme'] = 'node_search_admin';
-      $form['content_ranking']['info'] = array('#type' => 'markup', '#value' => '<em>'. t('The following numbers control which properties the content search should favor when ordering the results. Higher numbers mean more influence. Zero means the property is ignored.') .'</em>');
+      $form['content_ranking']['info'] = array('#type' => 'markup', '#value' => '<em>'. t('The following numbers control which properties the content search should favor when ordering the results. Higher numbers mean more influence, zero means the property is ignored. Changing these numbers does not require the search index to be rebuilt.  Changes take effect immediately.') .'</em>');
 
       $ranking = array('node_rank_relevance' => t('Keyword relevance'),
                        'node_rank_recent' => t('Recently posted'));
diff --git a/modules/node/node.module b/modules/node/node.module
index f7e998d131b1a4282234af6049b267eec862b269..7cb9dd859d7ebbef575c1682140d7545f472555a 100644
--- a/modules/node/node.module
+++ b/modules/node/node.module
@@ -611,7 +611,7 @@ function node_search($op = 'search', $keys = null) {
       // Output form for defining rank factor weights.
       $form['content_ranking'] = array('#type' => 'fieldset', '#title' => t('Content ranking'));
       $form['content_ranking']['#theme'] = 'node_search_admin';
-      $form['content_ranking']['info'] = array('#type' => 'markup', '#value' => '<em>'. t('The following numbers control which properties the content search should favor when ordering the results. Higher numbers mean more influence. Zero means the property is ignored.') .'</em>');
+      $form['content_ranking']['info'] = array('#type' => 'markup', '#value' => '<em>'. t('The following numbers control which properties the content search should favor when ordering the results. Higher numbers mean more influence, zero means the property is ignored. Changing these numbers does not require the search index to be rebuilt.  Changes take effect immediately.') .'</em>');
 
       $ranking = array('node_rank_relevance' => t('Keyword relevance'),
                        'node_rank_recent' => t('Recently posted'));