is there a setting I am missing or a plug in? The search results lay out displayed here are totally different than what I see on my site
Yup, new search plugin coming soon, take a look at this blog post for the info 
should be released this weekend… wanted to make sure 5.5.1 went smoothly first..
holy crap, just saw the blog and forum search widget, that’s the greatest thing since sliced bread! (after the mentions plugin of course)
agreed, I like that it points people to the forum, I’m going to disable the blog search and just use this
its part of the new Search plugin too (as well as the old deprecated blog search plugin)…