Prevent site crash on searches with special characters

[mririgoyen]

Proposed Changes

Resolves #87. Resolves #88.

Types of Changes

What types of changes does your code introduce?

• [ ] Documentation Update
• [x] Bugfix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• [ ] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• [ ] Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)

Checklist

• [x] I have read the Contributing doc.
• [x] Lint passes locally with my changes.
• [x] I have added necessary documentation (if appropriate).

Additional Information

There is an issue with the uFuzzy library used for the search mechanism on the site. This doesn't resolve the underlying issue, but instead adds guards to prevent the site from crashing.