525329 - Unable to specify search terms to be *excluded*

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 559216

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, enhancement, P4)

Description

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User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; de; rv:1.9.1.4) Gecko/20091016 Firefox/3.5.4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

searching details: row bar multi -mls
When i search at Google i can specify my search with "+" and "-", and there are "boolean operators" too!
At Mozilla Addons Website i cannot filter esp. "MLS" from results.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. search for "row bar multi"
2. search for "row bar multi -mls"
3. you get that (like at Google search): row bar multi mls
Actual Results:  
3. you get that (like at Google search): row bar multi mls

Expected Results:  
like at Google search: row bar multi -mls
without "mls" search results

Why not "Google Search" engine at mozilla.org?!

Comment 1

[Fred Wenzel [:wenzel]]

I was also unable to find a syntax for excluding specific terms, such as "adblock -plus" or "adblock !plus".

Dave, is that intended behavior? Is it easy to add? I think it'd be helpful to have any kind of negation operator.

Comment 2

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

use - plz