where did the relevance feature in the search go? it was very useful,

 

The decision was made to go back to the default vBulletin search engine, atleast for the time being. One reason was due to some intermittent, frequent, outages with the search engine we were using.

The vBulletin search engine does have relevancy built in, which you can select under the Advanced Search section and "Sort By":

 

I used the search recently, its working much better now. thanks.