I thought it was about time that search got fixed, but after looking at Torley's video, I can quickly see that it is not yet.
Torley does a search on "beachfront", but look what happens when he sorts them by "area' (00:1:47 in the video), #2 is Anik's Fierce Bunnies, and #3,4 and 5 are Protected Roadside. There is something deeply wrong with search, and its not only related to the tags.
If someone can try it with this new 'new-search' (because I won't), do a search on "blues". You know, blues music, or I got the blues. See if it returns everything tagged "blue" (no 's'). Returning results by truncating the search word is exactly what search shouldn't do.
Another good reason to stick with 1.23