User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-1940096-20120430184137/@comment-1656630-20120430225601

We hear and understand the disagreements that have been voiced here about this change, and the team in charge has been reviewing all of this feedback.

Our original intentions for the change are described in the blog post, and we need to continue with the plan at this time for those reasons: we need more data about search behavior in order to improve results, and we want to experiment with surfacing the tool to readers so they can discover more wiki content.

I know you (and others) have raised many great questions and ideas about making it optional, providing two buttons, and creating preferences. We're not able to offer any decisions about them right now, but they're definitely on our radar to consider.

As for the deleted comment, it was abusive without being constructive. We welcome feedback and criticism here, but derogatory name-calling is a different issue entirely, and we don't tolerate that.

Thanks for asking about our process, and for being passionate about this feature and Wikia.