User blog comment:JakePT/Reporting For Duty/@comment-4618888-20120522010517/@comment-1388547-20120522034058

The old search behavior was a bit nicer, because it allowed a user to go straight to a page by searching for its title. The new system is better suited to doing a thorough search of all pages, but if there's a page whose title is the same as a user's search string, that's usually what they want anyway. That said, it's not terribly hard to use the new system once you realize what's going on, so I don't personally consider it a big issue.