I don't think I've ever added the ability to filter via the text field on any search system I've built. Normally there's checkboxes and categories though

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 8 points 10 months ago

Which are often lacking. If I want to search for everything except brand X, I have to check the box for every other brand, which is a hassle. If I'm looking for "pirate costume" and I don't want anything related to One Piece, there's no checkboxes, or anything, to help me.

[–] onion@feddit.de 3 points 10 months ago

You should really implement the basics, "quotes" for exact match and *star as wildcard

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I wonder how many people even know that the hyphen works on google.

[–] TAG@lemmy.world 13 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Not even the Google search team. You can no longer negate search terms in Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo. Any suggestions for a better search engine?

[–] JoeCoT@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago

I've been using Kagi for 2 months and swear by it. It might feel silly paying for a search engine, but I'm now the customer instead of the product, and I can customize my searches the way I want.

[–] NoIWontPickaName@kbin.social 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Do what now!?! I can’t use standard search operators on google anymore?

[–] bleistift2@feddit.de 4 points 10 months ago

That’s what happens when stuff gets made down for the dumbest conceivable user.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

What are you talking about? I JUST did that on Google a few hours ago and it worked fine