1185129 - Searching for multiple words returns results for each word individually

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement)

Description

[Luís Miguel [:quicksaver] (not reading bugmail)]

What did you do?
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For instance, I ran a search for "window foreground", in the hopes of finding some documentation on bringing a window to the foreground without focusing it.

What happened?
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It reports 3258 results, 27 more than if I search for just "window" even! 

What should have happened?
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It should return results with ALL words searched for by default.

Is there anything else we should know?
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In the last few months I've had lots of trouble searching through MDN because of this. In this particular case it's impossible to find what I want.

I imagine searching for each word individually may have some benefits (even though we can just open another tab and run another search, but whatever), but it most definitely should be behind some setting, not as it now when it happens by default and renders my search queries useless most of the time.

Comment 1

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