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Searches preceded by a parenthesis fail.

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Domain
search

Research direction

Start by reproducing the search-engine behavior with “Beetle” and “(Beetle” against the documented titles. Trace the search entry point and identify why a parenthesis changes result ordering; done means both queries return the same relevant cores in the expected order.

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Description

bug

Any word in a title that is preceded by a parenthesis does not appear as first options in the search engine.
If you search for Beetle, no cores appear.
If you search for (Beetle, all cores with that word appear first.

Dominant language
TeX
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Forks
860
Avg merge
5d 16h
Merged PRs (30d)
7

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