@MrMazda:

Have you by chance tried searching for "Public Jerker" or Public+Jerker ?

I ask this because I seem to have no issues with the search. I don't know whether this has been fixed, or if I'm not affected because I am in a different user class. Can anyone advise me on this?

You're right, multi-word search is working right now for me, too, but it was not working 12 hours ago.  Two words, no results, even if the exact phrase was in the title and each word was present individually.  I even tried it with underscore instead of a space.

You are correct that about dead torrents but that's not the problem.