hm, 'without' is a tough one.
You're not looking for a zebra without stripes. You're looking for a horse.
Shirt Without Stripes
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#32The point that the author is making, in a very understated way, is that all three companies have PR websites that breathlessly describe their advanced AI capabilities, yet they cannot understand a very simple query that young children can.
Searching for "now one with stripes this time please" yielded similarly disappointing results :)
Edit: "stripes" not "stripped" ugh
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#33My favorite was "What do vegetarians eat" which was broken for years: https://twitter.com/Caust1c/status/855193855422943234
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#34Probably not surprising that most people don’t know, but negative keyword search works on all these platforms: shirt -stripes
That wouldn't show pictures of shirts without stripes.
It would show pictures of shirts in pages that don't mention the word "stripes", whether the shirts have stripes on them or not.
In other words, it has little to do with what the article wants to show...
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#35wake me up when I can google
"Anything but crocodiles"
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#36Wake me up when I can google
"anything but crocodiles"
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
The results are exactly what I would expect and hope to get.
When you search for “shirt without stripes” you expect and hope to get shirts and t-shirts with stripes?
I would prefer results containing words "shirt", "stripes" and "without". I don't want search engines to freely interpret my query and guess what I probably wanted to see while burying exact results in hundreds of pages of useless garbage.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes. I expect to get results that contain the keywords "shirt", "stripes", and "without", but perhaps with the last term ignored. Why, what would you expect? Would you search for "shirts that don't have stripes"? Or "shirts lacking stripes"?
> Why, what would you expect? I'd expect to see some of the much touted "search intelligence", NLP, term inference, vector term analysis, and AI in action...
It sounds like you expect the search engines to understand natural language, because your expectations are influenced by what is "touted". Do you think that's a realistic expectation?
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#40Or you can do this: https://www.google.com/search?q=shirt+-stripes
Yeah 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.