Bug or feature?

[Grunthos]

Hi,

When I use the search API as follows:

http://www.goodreads.com/search/index...

I get an expected list of authors called 'ender'.

I can refine it by taking a specific first name and it restricts the results to one author, eg:

http://www.goodreads.com/search/index...

However...when I search for 'ender+game' in the 'author' field:

http://www.goodreads.com/search/index...

I get 'Enders Game' by 'Orsonn Scott Card'.

Which seems a little odd. It's possibly a feature in that the author search would probably produce zero answers, so it (possibly) widens the search criteria.

But, I think it should return zero rows for such a search.

[Michael]

Looks like it works on the non api:

http://www.goodreads.com/search?q=end...


http://www.goodreads.com/search?q=end...




Not sure, sounds like a bug. I can file a ticket and look into later.

[Michael]

It's possible theres a problem escaping though, but those urls look correct to me.

[Grunthos]

When I chahngebthe source to goodreads in the second query, I get Enders game again:

http://www.goodreads.com/search?q=end...

Very odd.