diff --git a/SingularityUI/app/views/globalSearch.coffee b/SingularityUI/app/views/globalSearch.coffee
index c7de79a75c..54e44cc92a 100644
--- a/SingularityUI/app/views/globalSearch.coffee
+++ b/SingularityUI/app/views/globalSearch.coffee
@@ -46,13 +46,11 @@ class GlobalSearchView extends View
 
             @lastSearchQuery = query
 
-            fuse = new Fuse(
-                @requests.toJSON()
-                keys: ["request.id"]
-                threshold: 0.6
-                id: "request.id"
-                maxPatternLength: 128)
-            results = fuse.search(query)
+            options =
+                extract: (o) ->
+                    o.id
+            res = fuzzy.filter(query, @requests.toJSON(), options)
+            results = _.pluck(_.pluck(_.sortBy(res, (r) => r.score).reverse(), 'original'), 'id')
 
             process results.slice(0, 10)
 
diff --git a/SingularityUI/app/views/requests.coffee b/SingularityUI/app/views/requests.coffee
index ae39ea78d5..8da825eaad 100644
--- a/SingularityUI/app/views/requests.coffee
+++ b/SingularityUI/app/views/requests.coffee
@@ -50,8 +50,18 @@ class RequestsView extends View
         @bodyTemplate = @bodyTemplateMap[@state]
         @listenTo @collection, 'sync', @render
 
-        # So we don't spam it with every keystroke
-        @searchChange = _.debounce @searchChange, 200
+        @fuzzySearch = _.memoize(@fuzzySearch)
+
+    fuzzySearch: (filter, requests) =>
+        id =
+            extract: (o) ->
+                o.id
+        user =
+            extract: (o) ->
+                o.requestDeployState?.activeDeploy?.user or ''
+        res1 = fuzzy.filter(filter, requests, id)
+        res2 = fuzzy.filter(filter, requests, user)
+        _.pluck(_.sortBy(_.union(res1, res2), (r) => r.score), 'original')
 
     # Returns the array of requests that need to be rendered
     filterCollection: =>
@@ -59,13 +69,7 @@ class RequestsView extends View
 
         # Only show requests that match the search query
         if @searchFilter
-            searchFilter = @searchFilter.toLowerCase().split("@")[0]
-            fuse = new Fuse(
-                requests
-                keys: ["request.id", "requestDeployState.activeDeploy.user", "request.owners"]
-                threshold: 0.4
-                maxPatternLength: 128)
-            requests = fuse.search(searchFilter).reverse()
+            requests = @fuzzySearch(@searchFilter, requests)
 
         # Only show requests that match the clicky filters
         if @state in @haveSubfilter and @subFilter isnt 'all'
diff --git a/SingularityUI/app/views/tasks.coffee b/SingularityUI/app/views/tasks.coffee
index 39327f0961..014691e8b1 100644
--- a/SingularityUI/app/views/tasks.coffee
+++ b/SingularityUI/app/views/tasks.coffee
@@ -44,7 +44,18 @@ class TasksView extends View
         @listenTo @cleaningTasks, 'change', @render
         @listenTo @taskKillRecords, 'change', @render
 
-        @searchChange = _.debounce @searchChange, 200
+        @fuzzySearch = _.memoize(@fuzzySearch)
+
+    fuzzySearch: (filter, tasks) =>
+        host =
+            extract: (o) ->
+                "#{o.host}"
+        id =
+            extract: (o) ->
+                "#{o.id}"
+        res1 = fuzzy.filter(filter, tasks, host)
+        res2 = fuzzy.filter(filter, tasks, id)
+        _.pluck(_.sortBy(_.union(res1, res2), (r) => r.score), 'original')
 
     # Returns the array of tasks that need to be rendered
     filterCollection: =>
@@ -52,9 +63,8 @@ class TasksView extends View
 
         # Only show tasks that match the search query
         if @searchFilter
-            tasks = _.filter tasks, (task) =>
-                searchField = "#{ task.id }#{ task.host }".toLowerCase().replace(/-/g, '_')
-                searchField.toLowerCase().indexOf(@searchFilter.toLowerCase().replace(/-/g, '_')) isnt -1
+            tasks = @fuzzySearch(@searchFilter, tasks)
+
         # Sort the table if the user clicked on the table heading things
         if @sortAttribute?
             tasks = _.sortBy tasks, (task) =>
diff --git a/SingularityUI/bower.json b/SingularityUI/bower.json
index 858eac2b76..f7239608e7 100644
--- a/SingularityUI/bower.json
+++ b/SingularityUI/bower.json
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
     "datatables": "~1.10.7",
     "datatables-bootstrap3-plugin": "~0.4.0",
     "select2": "~3.5.2",
-    "fuse.js": "~1.2.2"
+    "fuzzy": "~0.1.1"
   },
   "resolutions": {
     "backbone": "~1.1.2",