Are there certain search booleans I should be aware of?

MrC

I've got your thoughts/comments in the issue. Thanks for sharing.

ref: dev/core/core#17472

Today I was searching for which of my login items used a specific email address. Hundreds of unrelated items appeared due to the @ splitting. I don't think email addresses should be word-split.

Edit: splitting is OK, but the entire email address needs also be searchable as entity, taking higher priority on a match.

viswiz is correct. Thanks viswiz. The original issue was filed for a period breaking the search into two portions. Looks like other characters have crept into the mix. I've made an additional note of that.

ref: dev/core/core#17472

As far as I remember search currently splits search phrases into words by characters like ., and probably @. Even worse it doesn't use boolean "and" to search for all words but uses boolean "or". Thus the search results are very often not what one might expect.
The search problems of 1PW8 are known for almost two years...
1PW7's far better search does not have this kind of problem.

@reelfish

Try omitting the @, if possible. We have an open issue where some special characters will interfere with the search; for lack of a better word, breaking it. I've added your report to our issue tracker.