Daniel Griffin

pressing enter in an empty search box

@danielsgriffin via Twitter on Feb 1, 2022https://twitter.com/danielsgriffin/status/1163933090953089025

Bonus: @StackOverflow also has a nifty feature whereby pressing enter in an empty search box sends you to a Search page with a handy and clear link to "Advanced Search Tips" (though the screenshot re searching dates above is from a further link to their Help pages).

Screenshot of Stack Overflow search page with a search bar and link to 'Advanced Search Tips'

Screenshot collected from the linked-tweet.

@GitHub does respond to the user action and provide something useful though slightly shaming? (helpful links also provided)

Screenshot of GitHub search page with the following text 'We could not perform this search. Search text is required when searching source code...' and links to 'search all of GitHub' and 'advanced search'

Screenshot collected from the linked-tweet.

Gmail and Twitter simply ignore the user's attempt.

(Though perhaps they are actually logging such unexpected behavior to better inform their advertising models...)

tweetsmicro interactions in search

Daniel Griffin

pressing enter in an empty search box