568540 - Consider showing an error message when users search for invalid/black-listed characters

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

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

Description

[krupa raj[:krupa]]

steps to reproduce:
Search for $ or ^

Searching for $ is treated as a flat search and we return 1000 add-ons which are not related to the search term.This might be confusing for our users.

We should probably show some user message like -"That is not a valid search term.Please try entering something more specific"

Comment 1

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

We're not getting that many queries for "$" and "^" to justify special behavior for those terms.

Comment 2

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

(In reply to comment #0)
> steps to reproduce:
> Search for $ or ^
> 
> Searching for $ is treated as a flat search and we return 1000 add-ons which
> are not related to the search term.This might be confusing for our users.

You're the only one that does it.

Comment 3

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

I guess I could consider doing this if the message said:

"Sorry Krupa, we are ignoring you."

Comment 4

[Jeff Balogh (:jbalogh)]

(In reply to comment #3)
> I guess I could consider doing this if the message said:
> 
> "Sorry Krupa, we are ignoring you."

"Nice try Krupa!"