No, I don't think people here consider search as a useless feature. On the other hand, there are other calendar features I considered important that aren't there. So, I guess people focus on that first? For me, the first thing I wanted to add to my calendar was a reminder to take out the trash. Simple repetitive tasks. Every/every second/every fourth tuesday. Calendar fails me.

Search, I don't expect see that coming although it might. But I do think some of the other calendar suggestions in said links can be expected to be implemented in Maemo 5.

I have higher expectations to finding something in the repositories. There are alternative calendars and planners there already, me seems to know.