User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-1732320-20120501152842

I'm sorry but this function is ridiculous. It basically makes every redirect a wikia has redundant because you don't get directed to the page you want you get directed to a list of articles containing the name. Especially for wikia that use macrons in the names of articles and character s and rely heavily on redirects for both readers and editors alike, it's really defeatist for us to be using it.

The only redeeming factor of this is that apparently the search is more comprehensive in that it picks up image files etc. I think this function would be much better put to use in the advanced/detailed search option. It's not that it's entirely bad just really counter-productive.

Please either take user's concerns into consideration and work on it some more, give wikis the option of using it or not or else remove it entirely, we'll survive without it.