499065 - [newsearch] Searching for "add-ons" is does not bring up results with "add-ons"

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 498094

(support.mozilla.org :: General, defect)

Description

[Chris Ilias [:cilias]]

We have many articles in the knowledge base with the string "add-ons", but the only KB article in the results when searching for "add-ons" is "How to change the Latest Headlines feed".
https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-newsearch.php?locale=en&q=add-ons&where=all&sa=&filter_lang=1&l=en&en_too=1&lastmodif=0&type=0&author=

If I search for "add ons" (without the hyphen), search results are much better.
https://support.mozilla.com/tiki-newsearch.php?locale=en&q=add+ons&where=all&sa=&filter_lang=1&l=en&en_too=1&lastmodif=0&type=0&author=

Comment 1

[E. Cooper [:ecooper]]

This is due to overly aggressive query sanitization in newsearch.