http://stackoverflow.com/questions/22669208/attributeerror-series-object-has-no-attribute-searchsorted-pandas essentially a pass thru to `np.searchsorted` - should return the index (rather than indices) - can better handle `datetime64[ns]` (e.g. coerce input to/fro) - could check if sorted internally (e.g. `is_monotonic` on the index), other pass the `sorter` argument)