Hey

I noticed that the Special:Search shows the "Beta" frontend, but any 
search produces the "old" search results. Is that intended? Can it be 
fixed? Good searching is very important.
(at least for us at http://vim.wikia.com )

And since I used lucene at work for a while, I would like to point you to 
some special search syntax:

http://lucene.apache.org/java/docs/queryparsersyntax.html

There are a number of really cool things:

* fuzzy searching with "~" finds mipselled words.
* boosting terms with "^" allows to weigh your query: 
 "boring^0.5 important^3"
* prefix search with "*": "wiki*" 
  (IIRC the prefix has to have at least 3 letters)

It would be interesting to know the exact fields that are in the index ...

You can try it out at http://www.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Search 
(the only wiki that uses the new search)

Sebastian.

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