[joe_the_user]

Yes, it is really so strange. Or actually, it is really so brain-dead.

I am working on a search utility at this moment.

The first thing you want to do is figure what you're doing and adjust to your user's style rather than forcing them to adjust to your application's ideas. That is one key to a "it just works" application. Anything else is more-or-less stuck in the nineties.