Tagged Questions
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1answer
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Location-search in Careers 2.0
I just experimented with a location-search on careers 2.0 for balkans and lo and behold one result was returned! Very nice feature, although I noticed that the result header was broken showing only 1 ...
8
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1answer
67 views
Search for not-accepted questions within my answers
I want to find all my answers to questions that don't have accepted answers. How do I do that?
Search inside my own answers gets part of the way to what I need - until the query tries to focus on ...
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0answers
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infavorites search operator is broken
I've looked for a dupe but couldn't find one, so here it goes.
There has been at least a couple of weeks since the infavorites: search operator is returning no results for me.
Test case: ...
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0answers
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“Search by website” doesn't seem to work consistently
I ran this search (as well as this one), and it did not turn up this user as it should (his website is set to arXiv). Is something broken here?
8
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0answers
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Possible search engine bug when searching for multiple tags (>2)
I possible found a small bug in the search engine. I was looking for questions tagged with c or c++ or c#. So I typed in "[c] or [c++] or [c#]". On the right I get the following message:
results ...
4
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0answers
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Filtering by Favorite Tag including wildcard and related tag does not filter
I have a favorite Tag including a wildcard [wpf*] in my list to get all question tagged with wpf. (Currently 63,210 question)
Now when i click on a Related Tag, such as [c#] (the count behind the tag ...
2
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0answers
49 views
Different results for lowest score depending on filter setting [duplicate]
I was doing something which many stackoverflow users at some point were curious about by searching for a really low scored question.
While doing that, I was taken aback by the fact that the search ...
0
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2answers
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Search term “XYURLGenerator” yields no results [duplicate]
I am trying to search for XYURLGenerator, which exists in the comments here.
Why won't StackOverflow find these questions?
Thank you!
33
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1answer
217 views
“Questions that may already have your answer” on Ask Questions page is no longer very useful?
I always glance through the "Questions that may already have your answer" section on the Ask Question page before posting since it frequently contains a post that already answers my question, and is a ...
17
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0answers
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Whoa! The search results just gave me a book!
So, the latest question here on Meta prompted me to do a quick search for "code review". Everything looked all fine and dandy until I switched to the votes tab, where I was prompted with this nice ...
5
votes
1answer
80 views
Search (still) doesn't work well with URLs
This question, Search doesn't work well with URLs, is about searching for posts with links to http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html, and includes that link as plain text in the question ...
5
votes
1answer
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Mobile search results don't tell you when nothing was found
Searching for [live-refresh] tags sidebar returns no results, and the full site page responds accordingly:
Your search returned no matches.
However, the mobile search just dumps you on an empty ...
0
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1answer
50 views
Results not shown when matching words are in “quotes”
If matching words are in quotes, the result is not shown:
This search, "what have you tried" is:question (link), does not list "What have you tried" epidemic in the results.
Same issue ...
5
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0answers
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“Url” search option should not ignore new version of duplicate links in the results
The search seems to ignore the new duplicate links when I search for linked questions. (These links have the heading "This question already has an answer here".)
An example for the question "Headers ...
4
votes
3answers
96 views
Searching for user:something returns every question and answer (13.3m results)
Problem
Searching for user:something (either a valid, or a non-existent user) returns all posts on SO.
The story
I stumbled across a question where the OP's username was greyed out:
Curious as ...
