Try an exact search with something more than the name, a location, for example. As BobNY states on another thread, this worked prior to Nov 22.
Some examples of the "exact" glitch in the function can be found on these threads.
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.ancestry.ancsite/11679/mb....http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.ancestry.ancusc/2877/mb.as...Someone just posted this AM they were having problems with exact search in the 1900 US Census and posted a pic of it. That search was performed in New Search.
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.ancestry.ancsite/11682/mb....