When a more specific error message is available from the search backend, show the user that instead of a blanket "There was an error, try searching again." In github.com/edx/edx-search, we're proposing removing quotes from the list of reserved characters in Elastic search terms. This enables searching for exact phrases, but also introduces the possibility of malformed queries. In those cases, it would be nice to give the user a hint that they need to change their query, instead of simply trying the same one again.
Open EdX Features ----------------- This is the root package for Open edX features that extend the edX platform. The intention is that these features would ideally live in an external repository, but for now they live in edx-platform but are cleanly modularized.