I miss when you could put `+foo -bar` into a search engine, ctrl-F on the top ten results, and reliably find `foo` on all ten of them and `bar` on none of them.
Nowadays, putting in `-bar` might increase the number of results that are directly about bar.
This bugs me no end. Image search is so challenging to use because the results are a vague interpretation of what you ask for, and don't try to be more descriptive because that's just more words to throw in the mix of results
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Dear DDG, I genuinely, truly appreciate an AI filter on images.
But for the love of Bob, would you please enable absolute operands ("" or +) in image searching? It's been on your todo list for over a decade.
I miss when you could put `+foo -bar` into a search engine, ctrl-F on the top ten results, and reliably find `foo` on all ten of them and `bar` on none of them.
Nowadays, putting in `-bar` might increase the number of results that are directly about bar.
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/syntax
https://duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/company/contact...
This bugs me no end. Image search is so challenging to use because the results are a vague interpretation of what you ask for, and don't try to be more descriptive because that's just more words to throw in the mix of results