890110 - No search results when certain Ghostery options are enabled

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 802660

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[hwine]

What did you do?
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1. used MDN search box for "Mercurial"

What happened?
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Zero results returned

What should have happened?
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Should have found https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Creating_Mercurial_User_Repositories

Is there anything else we should know?
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a google search found it with site=developer.mozilla.org

Comment 1

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

I cannot reproduce this, either with the Google-based search or Elastic Search. Hal, do you see the phrase "powered by Google" near the top-right when you search?

Comment 2

[hwine]

John,

I still see the problem -- there is no "powered by google" near the top right, or anywhere on https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=mercurial

I realize I didn't put the full URL to the sucessful google search. It is:
 https://www.google.com/search?q=site:developer.mozilla.org+mercurial+user

What additional info do you need?

Comment 3

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Thanks for the additional information, Hal. Strangely, I still cannot reproduce this.

Raymond, Luke: Any idea?

Comment 4

[hwine]

I did some more digging, since it's looking like something on my end. All of these are Mac builds.
    * works on chrome latest
    * works on 23.0a1 
    * works on 25.0a1
    * works on 22.0 w/ blank profile
    * fails on 22.0 w/ my normal profile & addins

So, it's some addon or profile setting that's messing me up. I'll try to isolate it, to ensure it's not a privacy addon that's causing the issue.

Comment 5

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Would love to hear your findings, just in case others experience the same issue.

Comment 6

[hwine]

Okay, I tracked it down to the Ghostery addon:
  https://www.ghostery.com/

There could be a config option that would let it still work on MDN (it's highly configurable).

Comment 7

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Do you have trouble searching on other sites? What about SUMO, which also uses Elastic Search.

https://support.mozilla.org/home

Wondering how much we can do on our end to solve this issue.

Comment 9

[hwine]

(In reply to John Karahalis [:openjck] from comment #7)
> Do you have trouble searching on other sites? What about SUMO, which also
> uses Elastic Search.
> 
> https://support.mozilla.org/home

Even with ghostery enabled, I get some search results. I'm not a frequent user of that site, but it seems not to be affected like developer.mozilla.org

> 
> Wondering how much we can do on our end to solve this issue.

If the two sites are using the same search approaches, then I prefer the configuration of sumo. :)

Comment 10

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Not sure that this is a dupe -- Hal does not see a "Powered by Google" logo on the search results page. Luke, can you check whether Hal is seeing Elastic Search?

Comment 11

[Luke Crouch [:groovecoder]]

user 'hwine' is not in the ES test user group.

When ghostery blocks the Google AJAX Search API it also blocks the "Powered by Google" logo because it's pulled in by the same API.

http://screencast.com/t/syEVNK0yyf8

Comment 12

[John Karahalis [:openjck]]

Ah, nifty. And that would explain why Hal is seeing results on SUMO.

Hal, it looks like you will be able to see results -- even with Ghostery -- once we switch to Elastic Search (bug 839214).