"cat" NOT "dog"

As an "information scientist" I should have tried and figured this out ages ago!
One seem to be able to use somewhat all Boolean operators on searches at ipernity!

So, instead of worrying that I can not search for cats and get also a lot of noise, I should really tried it, and search for:

"cat"

So, by writing quotation marks around the "search string", I make sure not to get also photos of caterpillars and advocates.

Moreover, I can indeed use those capital letter operators:

"cat" NOT "dog"

And, I can also have an OR operator:

"cat" OR "dog"

The only limitation sometimes is that words on caption, keywords and comments may mess up the search results:

"cat" AND "dog"

So, anyone mentioning either of the cases on comments or elsewhere will cause cases where are maybe only cat on the image and dog becomes mentioned somewhere else. However, this is way better than to have all words where the search string appears in the middle of longer words.

The Boolean operators then comes replaced with some corresponding symbols on the search field:

+ = AND
| = OR
- = NOT

And some character comes replaced even more cryptic ones on the URL field. But the outcome is what matters if and when it helps to find out something more spesific.

Please find more on my Secrets of ipernity search blog article.