Actually, it's not the same. Bug #5 says that it only happens when the text based search is used, not the Find nearest (POI) search. You can test out the queries on http://gazetteer.openstreetmap.org/namefinder/
Text based: use the same search string as you would in OSN
Find nearest: for the nearest pub it would be "pub near <lat>,<long>"
Actually, it's not the same. Bug #5 says that it only happens when the text based search is used, not the Find nearest (POI) search. You can test out the queries on http:// gazetteer. openstreetmap. org/namefinder/
Text based: use the same search string as you would in OSN
Find nearest: for the nearest pub it would be "pub near <lat>,<long>"