Publication Standards Issue

[SkywalkerSupreme]

Problem

• As a software engineering student, I conducted tests on the Open Library search tab and noticed an issue related to publication standards. According to publication guidelines, such as the Kindle standard (https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/GW7J4WEKBVU25YEC), book titles should not be directly linked to external URLs.

• I observed that when conducting tests with the input "http://www" and a set of books were returned, which are actually links. Ideally, there should be a validation during book registration to prevent this from happening.

Reproducing the bug

1. Go to the Open Library website.
2. Navigate to the search tab.
3. Search for http://www/ (https://openlibrary.org/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww&mode=everything)
4. Observe the search results containing book titles directly linked to external URLs.

Expected behavior: Book titles in search results should not be directly linked to external URLs, in accordance with publication standards.

Actual behavior: Search results contain book titles directly linked to external URLs, which violates publication standards.

Context

Below is a screenshot of the conducted test.

Notes from this Issue's Lead

No response

[mekarpeles]

@SkywalkerSupreme -- as we encounter issues with data on Open Library (rather than the UI, etc) let's please open them on this repository, as we have a community of librarians who have access to tools to fix data.