Board Thread:Wiki General Discussion/@comment-4811793-20131002152454/@comment-3474542-20131201221745

So far, so good. It does have a few problems, though. And, I've got a couple requests, pretty please!

Good Things

 * 1) No jarring changes in how the search function works using Search-Go
 * 2) It does seem to be a bit faster and somewhat "smarter" with article results.

Semi-Neutral

 * 1) Page image displayed next to search result on drop down. This can be a good thing, as long as it doesn't impact speed, and if the image is relevant to the page.

Problems

 * 1) It doesn't auto-complete for pages not in the main (article) namespace, such as "Template:Infobox" or "MediaWiki:Wikia.css".
 * 2) It picks random images from the page, even when there is an image in the infobox. This is still better than earlier image results seen at the bottom of pages.
 * 3) It doesn't reliably return help pages. This may be something that needs to be fixed with the transclusion of these pages. A band-aid solution when a person searches with the prefix "Help:", would be to offer to repeat the search for help pages on Community Central.
 * 4) It doesn't return any results for any special pages. For example, if you type in "Special:Contact" on this wiki, it does not take you to the page Special:Contact. It displays this: Special_Contact_search_error.jpg.

Feature Requests

 * 1) I would like to be able turn off the searching of comments (a checkbox under "Advanced" is fine). Sometimes searching the comments is good, but if they contain a common term, results from the comments can overwhelm the search results.
 * 2) On that note, it would be very nice to be able to search only comments, and comments attached to a specific page. It would also be nice to be able to search for pages that are/are not in a specific category.