{"id":17709,"date":"2025-05-13T16:41:30","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T20:41:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/?page_id=17709"},"modified":"2025-05-13T17:23:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T21:23:24","slug":"image-search","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/image-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Image Search"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>..<\/p>\n\n\n\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"boolean-search\">Boolean Search<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Boolean searches use their own special query language and stopwords are omitted from the search; so a search for \u201ccurrently\u201d will return no results even if there are images with the word \u201ccurrently\u201d in their title\/description. The 50% threshold forced on natural language searches does not apply.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Also, please be aware that the Boolean Search does not function on tags. It only works on titles and descriptions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Boolean search special operators<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td>Not using an operator<\/td><td>Implies OR<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>+<\/td><td>Stands for \u201cAND\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u2013<\/td><td>Stands for \u201cNOT\u201d<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&gt;<\/td><td>Changes the relevance of the following term to a higher level<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&lt;<\/td><td>Changes the relevance of the following term to a lower level<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>~<\/td><td>Changes the relevance of the following term to no level<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>*<\/td><td>Wildcard \u2014 applied only after a search term<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u201c<\/td><td>Like natural language search, this forces results that match in the exact order presented inside quotes<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>()<\/td><td>It creates a sub-expression that can be nested.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>.. Boolean Search Boolean searches use their own special query language and stopwords are omitted from the search; so a search for \u201ccurrently\u201d will return no results even if there are images with the word \u201ccurrently\u201d in their title\/description. The 50% threshold forced on natural language searches does not apply. Also, please be aware that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-17709","page","type-page","status-publish","czr-hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P1FUJv-4BD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17709"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17715,"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/17709\/revisions\/17715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edwardbacon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}