When right-clicking then selecting the "search-brave-for" option on a text that has "oh!" at the beginning, Brave will search Open Hub for the following text or open open hub homepage if no following text was added.

[dzyphr]

Description

Discovered by trying to right-click brave search for Oh! Tengo Suerte . I Thought my search engine had been changed, but I realized open hub was an open source code platform not a generic search engine which confused me further.

Steps to Reproduce

1. Select / Highlight the text Oh! Tengo Suerte or just Oh! or Oh! [followed by any text here]
2. Right click the selection and choose Search Brave for Oh! [followup-text]

Actual result:

Open Hub webpage is displayed instead of users preferred search engine

Expected result:

Preferred search engine is used to search for the entire selected text.

Reproduces how often:

Everytime oh! is used. Seems like a hidden feature? But should absolutely be opt in and not mandatory

Brave version (brave://version info)

Brave	1.48.171 Chromium: 110.0.5481.177 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	f34f7ab2d4ca4ad498ef42aeba4f4eb2c1392d63-refs/branch-heads/5481@{#1239}
OS	Linux
JavaScript	V8 11.0.226.16
User Agent	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/110.0.0.0 Safari/537.36
Command Line	/opt/brave.com/brave/brave --disable-domain-reliability --enable-dom-distiller --origin-trial-public-key=bYUKPJoPnCxeNvu72j4EmPuK7tr1PAC7SHh8ld9Mw3E=,fMS4mpO6buLQ/QMd+zJmxzty/VQ6B1EUZqoCU04zoRU= --sync-url=https://sync-v2.brave.com/v2 --lso-url=https://no-thanks.invalid --variations-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --variations-insecure-server-url=https://variations.brave.com/seed --flag-switches-begin --flag-switches-end --component-updater=url-source=https://go-updater.brave.com/extensions --desktop-startup-id=gnome-shell/

[trollboy]

This appears to be a bug in BraveSearch.com itself, as when I try searching with my search term there, regardless of browser. I just reproduced this using firefox on bravesearch.com.

[trollboy]

I was able to fix it by changing the brave default search to DuckDuckGo.

[esaulpaugh]

brave search still has this bug