Search function in iPod 5th gen 60GB

After upgrading to iPod software/firmware 1.2 I noticed that there were a few new things like brightness control and letters showing on screen when doing a fast scroll through lists, but I could not find the advertised search option that would be a great deal more useful than brightness control. Is it possible that it is only available on the new-30/80G iPods or I am not skilful enough to find it on my video iPod 60G?
Would love to find out...:-)

@Sirius Mac
I completely disagree. I know the brightness control is great and everything, but dangling the search feature in our face is not cool. And you saying that we should get down on our knees and kiss Mr. Job's feet for allowing us to bask in the glow of any updates he deems us worthy to receive, is tantamount to you saying that being in a prison cell with a window is sooo much better than being in thrown down a well and forgotten about. Sure it's better, but it's still not good.
This is an obvious ploy by Apple to try to get us to buy new iPods which have only 1 new feature, but have a larger hard drive. It's a very very weak ploy granted, but it's obvious that's what it is. Frankly, this one is so weak that I don't believe anyone will upgrade for it, and it will only serve to upset some once happy iPod users, like myself. I'm not "unhappy" now, I'm just irked that they'd think so little of us that they feel that we either don't pay attention to their new releases, or that we'd be fooled by so weak a ploy.
I personally am withholding final judgement until another point release for the 20Gb/60Gb 5th gen comes out. If it doesn't enable search, then I'll be mad. For now, I'm fine giving them the benefit of the doubt that someone forgot to flip that switch in the 1.2 release.

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