517575 - Search should list only exact matches when search term is enclosed within double quotes

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Public Pages, defect)

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

Attachment: screenshot

steps to reproduce:
1.Go to https://preview.addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox
2.Search for "fireencrypter"

expected result:
Search should list only exact matches  when search term is enclosed within double quotes


actual result:
Search result lists "Fire encrypter"

Comment 1

[fcp]

What is wrong with it?  Showing Fire Encrypter when a user searches for "fireencrypter" does not sound like a bad thing.  It might be bad for some other search strings, though.

Comment 2

[Stephen Donner [:stephend] Not actively reading bugmail]

(In reply to comment #1)
> What is wrong with it?  Showing Fire Encrypter when a user searches for
> "fireencrypter" does not sound like a bad thing.  It might be bad for some
> other search strings, though.

It's a quoted string -- if the code splits out two disparate terms from a quoted string, that seems potentially problematic, for "other strings," as you say.

Comment 3

[Dave Dash [:davedash, :dd] (assign all bugs to mbrandt)]

Krupa/Stephen.

Marking as "INVALID".  The addon description contains the words "FireEncrypter".  

For the record, I agree with you in comment #2 that exact matches should be exact matches.

However... this will become an issue in the future... for example, Sphinx now internally treats "StumbleUpon" and "stumble upon" as the same thing - regardless of quotes.  Also in the future we may do this with other addons.

See: bug 517699

Comment 4

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

verified