User blog comment:Lancer1289/What's Up with Wikia's Search System/@comment-1991014-20120517034808

About two weeks ago, Wikia changed the way search functions in that it will no longer bring you directly to your desired page, even if spelled correctly. Instead, you'll get a list of all the pages with that word with the page you were searching for in bold at the top of the search page. They explained that the reason they did this was to make it easier for people to search for all the pages containing those terms. As for why the drop down menu is no longer appearing, I noticed that today myself and thought it was on my end.