Brave Search Operators don't appear to work on image search

[B2Pi]

Search operators (specifically site exclusion) are non functional on image search. This is, in the vernacular, a royal pain in the patootie

Brave is up to date
Brave 1.97.56 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Chromium: 155.0.8059.40```

This is a basic search.

And with operators:

And here’s the image search:

[B2Pi]

Huh. I kind of thought I’d get a response to a bug report.

[Mattches]

It’s not a bug – this is just the behavior at this time. Image search only supports site: operator. I’ve been told that the search operators for images are to be improved but weren’t prioritized initially.

I’ve asked for more information about this.

[B2Pi]

Is it documented somewhere? It’s a bit odd that site: would work, but not -site:

[Mattches]

@B2Pi

It’s a bit odd that site: would work, but not -site:

Agreed. And no, it’s not documented somewhere that I can see – not even on the Brave Search Operators pages.

I’m asking the Search team about this now.

[289wk]

In my experience, the plus and particularly the minus symbols usage have NOT been reliable.

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Alternative Example, enter into the Brave Search Field (not in the URL address field) at https://search.brave.com:

• penny

and search. Notice the results. Next, enter in the Brave Search Field (not in the URL address field):

• penny NOT site:wikipedia AND NOT site:usmint.gov

Notice the results and the difference between the two results sets.

[stubio]