User blog comment:Kirkburn/Technical Update: January 27, 2015/@comment-3183960-20150128123305/@comment-452-20150202185159


 * "For me, the Go-search as you call it is clearly the standard. You just have to type 3 characters and there's already a result."

We call it that because that is the name of it. Look in your preferences: it's called "Go-Search" there. (Mediawiki:wikiasearch2-enable-go-search)

You appear to be under the impression that "Go search" references to "Search suggestions". It does not. "Search Suggestions" refers to "Search Suggestions"

Go-search refers to typing the exact name of an article or redirect, pressing enter and going directly to the article/redirect instead of Special:Search.

The problem I've always had (and which you'll probably find me saying in the comments of the blogs I linked) is that I type much faster than the search suggestions return results, so it's much faster for me to "type the entire name of the article and press enter" than it is for me to "type half the name, wait up to several seconds, press down, press enter."

I agree that - if Go-Search were the default - there should be some way to easily "search" instead of "go" - this could easily be solved by having the first suggestion be "search for X", because "It's not difficult to click on the (search link) in the dropdown if that is what you really want."

However, if we make the assumption that Wikia want users to view the Search page at all times due to the ads there, then there's really no point discussing which is better for us.