New search engine

Hi, Molly. I see you've just replaced the Inktomi search engine with FAST search. Congratulations. How does this affect searching? Is there a way to put an advanced search page somewhere? I did all my searches on this site (and on google... and on yahoo...) using the advanced search page.
I realize this isn't only a forum issue, but I was hoping you'd have some information (and hopefully some pull) on this.
Try to take over the world!

Thanks for the quick reply, Julie.
First, while the advanced search may be used by less than 1% of the users, those few are probably the ones who know how to look for stuff. Most people, when looking for something, will make some choises which make the search results less ideal (like using too many words, or too few, or words with potential spelling problems and so on), while those who use advanced search pages, IMHO, use them because they know how to exploit search engines. So, it would be nice to support those few.
Second, there were some weird glitches in the system. For example, a few days ago I did a search for the thread congartulating Greg McKaskle on posting 1000 messages to the exchange. When I used the search box on the top of the page (with "Entire Site" selected), I got 3 results. When I used the advanced page, I got many more - the first or second of which being the one I wanted. I tried the same thing now - when I searched the entire site I got 42 results - most for job applications. When I searched just the forums, I got the one I wanted.
Because of this behavior, and because I don't always know exactly what I want, I almost never used the check boxes to uncheck topics but instead let the search engine and the search phrase get the proper results, so I actually don't like the fact that the results are sorted for me.
Last thing - I actually looked at the help page earlier, but I don't like using syntax in search engines. I much prefer advanced search pages. So, if it's possible, please create an advanced search page for me and people like me who would like to exploit the power of the search engine. Thanks.
P.S.
I'm actually fairly sure that if advanced search pages were made default, people would get used to them, but maybe I'm wrong. Thanks anyway.
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