241409 - When searching for a bug, it seems that the "search" feature gives FAR too many responses

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 260856

(Bugzilla :: Query/Bug List, defect)

Description

[Joe Mehaffey]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7b) Gecko/20040421

When  searching for ANY bug lately,  I seem to get a hundred responses, almost
all of which seem to have zero relevance to the search line I put into BugZilla.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.Just put in a search line in BugZilla and give it a try.
2.
3.

Actual Results:  
Got lots of "potential" bugs,  most of which had zero relevance to my input string.

Expected Results:  
The filter should be much more selective.

Comment 1

[R.K.Aa.]

Are you searching for "Bugzilla" in your local mail when this happens?
Assuming no, changing component.

WFM, btw. Please include a sample search string and mention some hits from this
that you didn't expected to turn up as a result.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Are you using the "find all bugs that mention these terms anywhere" search?

Comment 3

[Joe Mehaffey]

I am using the "find bugs with these keywords" search.  Only lately,  the search
produces FAR too many finds. If you will try the above search, you will find a
few in the first 10 that seem relevant,  but the next hundred are way off the
mark.  

I use google search on my own website for the same sort of find operation and it
finds relevant items without much "non relevant" stuff at all.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

The "format=specific" search is Myk's baby...

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

myk gives a better description of the problem in bug 260856. And the summary of
that bug reflects more closely what the problem encountered here is.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 260856 ***