Nikos, you must've missed my threads about how good the old search was. I never even used Google and if you searched for my posts, I was one of the few people that found old topics that answered the same questions.
After the change, Google Search online was better than the new search. The new search just displayed thousands of irrelevant threads (even with Advanced Search) or told me that the words I had used cannot be found. I would even copy and paste a short title and use advanced search name the author...and again it would not find what I was looking for. Google Search online would find it for me and be even more accurate in zeroing in on topics. So I was fine for a while.
Ever since the forum changed so that titles display instead of URLs, then Search stopped working completely for me, because this feature makes Google's finds inaccurate. The way I'm having to find topics is remember authors and look for their threads or posts and then click on their profiles to find their topics, since Member List isn't working.
I was one of the people who was excited about the changes, but two features I use all the time "Search" and "Member List" have never worked so I'm all set for the old ways.
I will miss "mention" and "tag" but I'm happy to PM people to get their attention if these must go with the return to the old system.