There are two ways to Search. One is the Search button at the top of all Maemo.org pages, and the other is the Forum only search that is rather hidden in the long list of text options listed above 'Active Topics'.

I really like how the top Search searches only the current context. So on tmo it searches only the forum, on the Development/Community pages it searches through documentation. On the Applications page it searches through only applications. Thats really cool.

My problem, however is with some of the results returned. I remember answering this question about the Virtual Keyboard several days ago.

Now today, someone has the same question here and claims to have searched for an answer but couldn't find one. I went ahead and did a few searches with the terms "onscreen keyboard", "on screen keyboard", and "virtual keyboard" and none of them returned ANYTHING useful or even related to the onscreen keyboard. This is despite the fact that the first post was named specifically "Virtual keyboard". I had to search for "enable virtual keyboard" before that post popped up.

Granted it shouldn't be a stretch of the imagination to type in "enable virtual keyboard", but I mean seriously. Searching for the exact name as the title of a post should probably return threads/posts with that name.
On top of that, its not clear the the OP in the second thread even knew to call it a "virtual" keyboard.

/end rant

IMHO, as a rule, you're better off using the "Power Search," which is Google-powered, which the others are not.

Well thats a third search option that I didn't even see! Thanks for pointing it out. I think it just cements the sad state of search on maemo.org right now.

You can check the Websites Bug Jars and vote the saearch related bugs there.