Well I've been quoting links from the FAQ for a fair while now, Brett - long before I joined this forum, as a matter of fact. Some of the posts therein are five years old, and obviously written as FAQs.
As to the search engine, It invites you (as indeed does the line directly above it) to ask a question - not to enter a search criterion. Whether or not the end result is the same, the default everywhere else that I've seen is to use the unambiguous word "search" somewhere: frankly, the current implementation here looks like nothing more or less than an invitation to start a new forum thread. It's not at all obvious that there's a search dialogue in there...
