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The search bar, as you may have noticed, is goin' a bit crazy stylistically. This is not much to do with us, although I have altered the actual appearance of the search results. It's hoped that by taking a bit of control of the situation locally that we'll be insulated somewhat by Wikia's rapid-fire changes to the style of the search box. Wikia are actively changing the style on a daily basis in order to find a new style that works for them, since they have to juggle two different buttons in that area, not just one. Be prepared for more changes as they evolve their design.

By the way, if you haven't figured it out yet, the two buttons do different things with searches. The right arrow means "go directly to the page that I type into the bar". This is roughly equivalent to what the magnifying glass on the search bar used to do. The magnifying glass now means "do a full search of the text of all pages and then present me with a list of the closest matches". This is roughly equivalent to what Special:Search does/did before.
czechout<staff />    <span style="">14:04: Sat 19 May 2012