Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
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Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#2It's part of the search commands i.e
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=peanut+-butter
searches for articles that contain peanut but not butter
Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#3Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#4Doesn't work with regular google searches either
Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#5The - excludes the next term from results, so you are searching for nothing here.
A normal Google search returns no result, so Images must be handling it differently.
Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#6The dash is the NOT operator. This is the error that occurs when the query contains only NOT terms. It’s common to check for this special case in query processing and throw an error. Otherwise it’s easy to write a query that returns all or nearly all of the documents in the index.
Try `-1 2`, `-1 -2`, and `1 2`
Re: Google Images: error when you search for anything that starts with a dash
#7More interestingly perhaps searching for “ -n to n” where n is an integer returns no results (e.g https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=google+-1+to+1