[Andreas]

Originally Posted by princeton

I didn't say anything regarding the 'advanced search' ... my point is that the search function should be easily accessible and visible to everyone.

It is visible for everyone.
JS users will click and see the input, Non-JS will click and see the form.
How more intuitive could it be (except directly displaying the input on every page, which is just clutter IMHO)?.

If I want to search somewhere I click search, what do you do?

What do you think is easier?

I think this is easier than linking to the form.
Basically it's the same discussion we had about linking the edit button to quick edit instead of linking to the full editor as it was in older versions.