This is the funniest post I've ever read on the Bug Reporting part. So, this may be a bug, I agree, the search is a piece of sheit. Try to put only a part of a topic, maybe it will work?
Well this topic reminded me about the search feature just as I was trying to find a topic I saw some days ago. So I went on the search page and put in the details, but it's unusable so I had to look through the topics manually.