Complaint about search within MSDN

My complaint involves the really SUCKY search facility on MSDN. Come on, guys, really?
I was trying to locate this page, about MCSD Certification:
www.microsoft.com/learning/en-us/mcsd-certification.aspx
and to start with I was on MSDN, entering search terms like “MCSD” and “certification”. And there were semi-relevant results, but nothing to the point of the page above. A lot of “social.msdn.microsoft.com” pages for Forums etc. I didn’t
go past the first page, as it seemed things were getting less and less relevant.
So where did I find the page I was looking for? I had to go to Bing. I put “MCSD” as the search term and got my desired result as the second item in the results.
Either the Certification web team needs to see that its pages are better indexed on MSDN, or the MSDN web team needs to freaking FIX their search functionality. I suspect the latter, as I usually find that searches within MSDN leave
a lot to be desired.

Yep, the forums search feature isn't all that useful. It doesn't allow you to use AND within a search.
There's a thread going on in the Suggestions forum asking for this tool to be fixed, you may want to add your voice (and vote) there:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/9cf8ad4b-5111-4f84-9809-99cd8f1b7152/make-the-forum-search-tool-useful?forum=suggest
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