User blog comment:Dopp/Updates to How We Search/@comment-5473581-20120426153048

Strangely enough, I had just done a search using what i knew was the article title, intending on going straight to the article, and was about to report it as a bug. I checked my email first and saw this update.

I agree that "Exact Search" searches - using quotation marks, should go to the search page, but when putting the exact title of an article in the search box, I really expect to jump to that article, and thing that displaying the search page instead will cut into productively greatly.

Unless your goal is to get more page views by forcing people to view an intermediate search result page whenever they're trying to get to an article.

Can we please have the option to go directly to the article as before?


 * "often, you won’t even need to finish the word before it suggests the right page for you."

I type faster than your autocomplete autocompletes, so it is faster for me to type the title and hit enter than type the title, wait several seconds, then press down and enter.

My personal productivity is already down due to the new editor's side effect of disabling locally-stored saved form history. (Meaning no local auto-complete for edit summaries) I was told that this would be addressed somehow, but it still hasn't.