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Or you can do this: https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes
by alanbernstein 7y ago
Or you can do this: https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes
- staz 7y agodoesn't works
- phalangion 7y agoStill includes some shirts with stripes, since the search is now just for shirts that don't explicitly mention stripes.
- leephillips 7y agoThat's not what the - operator is supposed to do. It's supposed to suppress pages containing the keyword after the -.
- 1f60c 7y agoAnd parent is saying it isn't working. (It doesn't work for me either.)
- leephillips 7y agoThat's why I said "supposed" to do. I'm not sure if it's working at the moment.
- flixic 7y agoYou can also do "plain shirt", but the repo is making a message about the smartness of our search engines.
- sulam 7y agoThe '-' operator stopped working for me with Google a while back. Not sure why, it's fairly frustrating.
- speedgoose 7y agoThey want to always return results even when they don't have any. So they will remove some of your query. This last week Google even returned months old results when I asked for the last 24 hours. It's so frustrating. I wish the Google team that decided this nonsense have to migrate Python 2 to Python 3 projects until they retire.
- chickenpotpie 7y agoYeah that works, but it's not the point. The author isn't saying there's no way to search for shirts that don't have stripes. They're saying search engines still don't understand how to find shirts without stripes in the same way humans do.
- saagarjha 7y agoThat's not right, because that would not include pages that have the text "shirt without stripes" on them.