User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-1724320-20120426192704

This doesn't work for me. The search engine used by Wikia is bad enough as it is, so I was always glad that most people were able to bypass it by going directly to the page they searched for. Special:Search is inconsistent, often returns completely irrelevant pages, and is horrendously bad with typos.

It's clear from reading the comments that a lot of people like this update, and it makes sense -- oftentimes you want to search for a keyword instead of an actual pagename, and the search used to give no way to do that besides searching some gobbledygook first, taking you to Special:Search, and then typing in your query. A better solution would have been to add a "Go" button along with the search button, which we already have in Monobook.

Also, correct me if I'm wrong, but aren't ads on Special:Search a relatively new addition? I don't remember having them when I was testing SearchDigest. That's a bit worrying...

Fix the search engine before you make everyone use it. It's not good enough right now.