You can limit the scope of a search using the "prefix:" operator.
For example: 
http://www.mediawiki.org/w/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&search=image+prefix%3ARelease+notes
Unfortunately, I think you need Lucene-search for that functionality.
If that's not an option, vanilla MediaWiki does let you limit the
scope of a search to specific namespaces, so using namespaces instead
of subpages would be a way to work around your problem.

On Fri, Nov 5, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Brian Bell <[email protected]> wrote:
> Yes, the search box is for searching the entire wiki.
> Since most browsers contain a search function (ctrl-f for example), it
> is not normally needed. Just click on the page and search using the
> browser's search function.

ctrl-f (at least the default implementation in most browsers) is a
very limited tool: you're out of luck if you want a search that's any
fuzzier than "find this exact string for me".

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