Natural language vs Boolean search

[robertheadley]

Interesting. You would think that most search systems would be able to assume that without and - would be the same. Also, Google in particular I know matches words with the same thesaurus root word, So Shirts -stripes should also match for stripe and striped.

This Boolean phrase is more successful in google shopping in particular.

shirt -striped or -stripe or -stripes

[Joshfindit]

On Amazon(.ca), “shirt -stripes” was equally unhelpful:

1st item: a striped shirt 3rd item: sweatpants

[dissimulate]

shirt -striped or -stripe or -stripes

Although this isn't the same sentiment as "shirt without stripes". It will exclude images that explicitly state that they're striped, but it won't be searching for shirts without stripes. I suppose that problem goes far beyond natural language processing and into image recognition.

[M3kH]

I was here to say the same shirt with no -"stripes" in google works.

[robertheadley]

In my experience, Yandex is much better at knowing what is actually in a photo without there being keywords to associate.