User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-876022-20120509070421/@comment-957747-20120510004522

@Ryan - unfortunately, that's a ToU violation... changing the functionality of the search as it now stands.

@Spike - that would be changing it back to exactly how it was originally...

I agree they need to "beef up" Special:Search, but this is definitely not how it should have been done.