diff --git a/app/Helpers/Collector/GroupCollector.php b/app/Helpers/Collector/GroupCollector.php
index 73901525ef..8cf1c8c3b3 100644
--- a/app/Helpers/Collector/GroupCollector.php
+++ b/app/Helpers/Collector/GroupCollector.php
@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ class GroupCollector implements GroupCollectorInterface
         $this->query->where(
             static function (EloquentBuilder $q) use ($array) {
                 $q->where(
-                    function (EloquentBuilder $q1) use ($array) {
+                    static function (EloquentBuilder $q1) use ($array) {
                         foreach ($array as $word) {
                             $keyword = sprintf('%%%s%%', $word);
                             $q1->where('transaction_journals.description', 'LIKE', $keyword);
diff --git a/app/Support/Search/Search.php b/app/Support/Search/Search.php
index 5e28ef2d6a..fa09873cd9 100644
--- a/app/Support/Search/Search.php
+++ b/app/Support/Search/Search.php
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ class Search implements SearchInterface
     {
         $string = implode(' ', $this->words);
         if ('' === $string) {
-            return \is_string($this->originalQuery) ? $this->originalQuery : '';
+            return is_string($this->originalQuery) ? $this->originalQuery : '';
         }
 
         return $string;
@@ -132,6 +132,11 @@ class Search implements SearchInterface
             $filteredQuery = str_replace($match, '', $filteredQuery);
         }
         $filteredQuery = trim(str_replace(['"', "'"], '', $filteredQuery));
+
+        // str replace some stuff:
+        $search        = ['%', '=', '/', '<', '>', '(', ')', ';'];
+        $filteredQuery = str_replace($search, ' ', $filteredQuery);
+
         if ('' !== $filteredQuery) {
             $this->words = array_map('trim', explode(' ', $filteredQuery));
         }