There are two search options:
- Search topic title and message text
- Search message text only
As a result of this is the only forum, where I often abandon the search and just post because I can't spend 30 minutes wading through 10+ pages with coincidental results when on any single other forum I can do the same in 30 seconds via a title search.
It just does not make any sense to search in "message text only" while excluding search terms in the title.
But restricting search term matches to the title only yields more pertinent results (as search term matches in the message text are sometimes coincidental by nature, i.e. you wouldn't find someone saying he has "cleaned the windows of his house today" in the topic title), particularly when search terms are general and cannot be improved on.
I have seen countless of forums on the web in my life, but not a single one with this problem. It's always search in title only and search in title + message.