User blog comment:Daniel Baran/Search Developments: Big Picture/@comment-188432-20120511214532/@comment-1656630-20120511223330

Hi CzechOut,

If the Howling talk is showing up in default searches, please Special:Contact us and we can remove it from the default namespaces. (That shouldn't have changed with these releases, though, so if it was fine before, it's probably still fine now.)

The Advanced Tab is behaving a bit oddly in this current implementation, but it's not unpredictable once you look at it: if you click Advanced after you run a search, it shows empty boxes, to prompt you to define your next search. If you click to another tab and then click back to advanced, it shows the default search namespaces because they're in the URL by that point.

I agree that this is weird and should probably be improved -- we're looking into that. But it should never be automatically adding a namespace that isn't default. If you see it doing that, please let us know.