User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-1318845-20120514021946/@comment-3335785-20120514233305

Critical to the skin how? If it was that critical then the option of the go button wouldn't have even been considered. Adding a function in preferences doesn't help out anons either. A wiki is there to be viewed by everyone, regardless of whether they have an account or not. Why is it they should suffer from, what many of us see as, a inferior search function?

I'm sill of the belief it should be able to be changed for everyone who uses a wiki. Plenty of other users don't like the search and not everyone who uses a wiki knows of central to voice their complaints. Perhaps it's time to let communities decide what is best suited to their wiki?

This new search may satisfy some types of user but it will infuriate others. Someone doing research for homework (we all use google for it at some point) might want to see something like Special:Search so they can best select what it is they're looking for. Not every assignment is the same after all. However, a gamer is impatient, impulsive and generally has a low attention span. It's a hazard of what the modern internet can now give us, and it's expected everywhere. I can't see too many of them being particularly interested in scrolling through a dozen pages to find what they want. they'll just go back to google and get it from there.

This isn't forgetting that the search button still coexists along with the go button should someone need to use it at some point. A search help page is enough for users to grasp the difference provided it's well labelled enough. Maybe a automatic notification with a link that appears after a search until dismissed? These aren't huge asks in my opinion, so does it really hurt that you guys aren't up a few percent on advertising revenue? It's not like Wikia was exactly broke beforehand.