1241077 - Ensure we don't have duplicate suggestions in the search bar suggestion list (rare occurrence)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Search, defect, P5)

Description

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

Attachment: Screenshot of the search suggestions

With Bing set as the default engine, typing something that looks like maths (eg. "42*23") causes the suggestion panel to be filled with plenty of duplicate suggestions (showing the result of the operation, ie. "42*23 = 966"), see attached screenshot.

Mike, do you know if this is a bug on the Bing side or something that we should filter in the search service?

Comment 1

[:shell escalante]

ping - any info on this Mike

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

I don't get anything, but I'm in Taipei right now.

If I had to guess, this was a bug in Bing's suggestions code.  We could filter duplicate suggestions in the service.  Since we're not using the optional parameters (nor are any providers) we don't have a reason to not do so.

https://www.bing.com/osjson.aspx?query=98*23&form=OSDJAS currently returns an empty suggestion set.

Recommend closing this as WFM or morphing to generally handle duplicate suggestions.

Comment 3

[Florian Quèze [:florian]]

I can't reproduce anymore, so yes, the part related specifically to Bing is WFM at this point.

Do you think it's useful for us to handle duplicate suggestions in the search service?

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

It's not super useful, it's guarding against a relatively rare case.  Not a priority, but I wouldn't say we shouldn't accept a patch.

Comment 5

[Mark Banner (:standard8)]

We've not had any reported occurrences of this recently, and the previous suggestion was WFM, so I think we'll close this out.