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

I'd rather like to know why time must be wasted on redirected to Special:Search and then sending us to the page we intended to go to. I can understand landing on the search page if there are no redirects for the term(s) that was entered, but always landing on it isn't what most anon's would like.

As I said before, this system is too similar to how the JAMWiki software works with its' search function. If people didn't want fast finds, they would use the official Jagex Ltd. RuneScape Wiki and not the RSW here on Wikia. It would be a good step to actually do a site-wide (and hub specific) survey of how users think about their searches to pages they know exist being diverted. As for the time being, anything entered into the search for the RSW will go to the article in question like the search function of any MediaWiki wiki is intended to do. 07:04, May 9, 2012 (UTC)