User blog comment:Rappy 4187/Technical Update: December 4, 2012/@comment-188432-20121204180215/@comment-1474707-20121204191814

The really annoying thing about the search feature is that searching for part of an article name doesn't bring up that article in search results all the time, and when it does they are often given less priority in the results than articles where the term is just matched in the body of the article. Example: We have 3 pages called "Beau" something (1, 2, 3) on Wiki 24, and a search for "Beau" shows one of the them as the first result, one as the eleventh result and the other not at all. This is one of loads of examples I could give.

The sneaky thing about this is that it was fixed right around the time Wikia made an update to force users onto their search page for extra ad exposure. So my cries of "you can't do this, your search is terrible" were temporarily silenced, yet after the update was implemented search reverted to the crappy old thing it had always been.