The search API documentation encourages developer to test search queries at search.twitter.com before using them in an application.
However, search.twitter.com will ignore invalid, erroneous, malformed parts of the query and will return results even in the case of a malformed query which will return an error if used through the API.
Which makes search.twitter.com completely USELESS for testing search queries.
So, if it is intended to serve as a testing tool, it should NOT ignore errors in queries and its results should be consistent with api call results.
If it is NOT intended to serve this purpose, then please remove the parts of the documentation which tell developers to test queries at search.twitter.com.
Updates
- Thank you for the suggestions.