You should be able to search players by name in a tab on the top next to clan search.
Printable View
You should be able to search players by name in a tab on the top next to clan search.
I agree just a quick thing if they were clanless you could invite them, this would also make it easier to find your friends who don't have game center
Good idea but if this were to happen it would be terrible with all the people playing CoC it would almost be impossible to find someone's name due to the amount that play because just think searching Chief Pat, there would be thousands of results popping up unless they added an advanced search which allowed you to search pinpoint things about a certain player but idk good idea though:)
I see it's utility, but very annoying.
Some names are used thousands of times, and there's no way you're going to be able to find a specific person in that swarm of people. If there's someone specific you're looking for and you can contact them try to get them through their clan (if they're not part of one have them join some bad clan on global temporarily). And if you don't have contact with that person, you probably shouldn't be looking for their base :p.
Read the sticky. This is ruled out.