This tag is for questions about the built-in search functionality of this site is powered by elasticsearch.
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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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2answers
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How to search for a question I viewed for? [duplicate]
I viewed for a question, but forgot to mark that question as a favorite.
I don't remember:
the user who asked the question
the question's title
The only thing I remember is that I viewed the ...
5
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1answer
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How to search for an answer I voted for?
I voted for an answer, but forgot to mark that question as a favorite.
I don't remember:
the user who asked the question
the user who answered the question
the question's title
The only thing I ...
2
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1answer
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How do I find out the total number of accepted answers?
Can someone please suggest a query to directly see the number of answers I posted that were accepted. Right now I have to manually count from total given answers.
Hope there is an easy way.
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0answers
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Proper use of “or” in the search [duplicate]
I studied the search capabilities of Stack Overflow and noticed an interesting phenomenon. When I'm searching for "something [c#] or [wpf]", I get the correct result (
"results found containing
...
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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?
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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 ...
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2answers
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How can I determine which of my questions have answers but have not had the “accepted answer” set? [duplicate]
I would like to be able to search for or otherwise determine all questions I initiated which have one answer at least but which I have not selected a correct answer for.
Is there any way I can do ...
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0answers
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Can the 'search' work as well as the new question subject line [duplicate]
The new question subject line seems to be more effective than the search for finding relevant questions. I will often search and then think that there's not a question, write it out in vim, copy into ...
2
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3answers
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Can I save the search link in my profile?
Is there anyway to save the search link for future use? As an example I did a search and got a link with very good questions and answers. Now I am looking for anyway to save this search in my profile. ...
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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 ...
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1answer
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How to search for a particular page?
Lets say there are 98,765 pages of questions in Stack Overflow and I want to see what is on page 689. How do I do that? One way is to manually lick your way to the page, which sounds very rudimentary ...
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0answers
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Isolated Tag Search: Questions Having X Tag Only and Nothing Else [duplicate]
How do I search for questions tagged with Java and only java?
Something like this:
Via Ignored Tags?
Can I specify a wildcard tag to ignore all other tags except Java?
Via URL?
Any request that ...
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0answers
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Search feature for sites on stackexchange.com
I went to the Stack Exchange.com site to see if a specific site existed, but with 101 sites, it takes quite a while to manually scan them all, and hope you don't miss any one of them.
Could we get a ...
2
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0answers
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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!
5
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1answer
55 views
How to explicitly search for plural words
In JSF there exist tags with singular and plural names like <h:message>/<h:messages> and <p:column>/<p:columns>.
When attempting to search for my posts about <p:columns> ...
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1answer
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“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 ...
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0answers
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Are image and link description text indexed by search engines or SE's built-in search functionality?
In some of my questions in Arqade (e.g. this), I would put a screenshot to indicate what I'm talking about.
I was wondering if I should write the text in the screenshot in the question's body to ...
2
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1answer
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Exclude specific site from search result
in google we can use Minus(-) operator to remove one site from result
Example:
Change div tag color -stackoverflow.com
how can i do this when i search using stackexchange.com search
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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 ...
3
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0answers
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How do a question's and answer's score affect its rankings in SO's search results?
How do a question's and answer's score affect its rankings in SO's search results? And how does an answer's score affect its position within a given question?
Generally, what is the scoring system ...
6
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1answer
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Automatically append “is:question” to searches done from the upper-right search box?
When most people search the site, they're looking for a question that matches their keywords, not an answer that matches their keywords. And typically, you do not expect to see multiple search results ...
5
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1answer
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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
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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 ...
3
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0answers
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Why Related links have no “nofollow” attribute [duplicate]
I noticed that the links at the right of any stackoveflow.com pages lacks "nofollow" attribute. CMIIW, but these links is result of algorithm work that compares question based on automatic text ...
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 ...
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0answers
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Add “Search My Activity” to the “Close as Duplicate” dialog
When I'm the first person voting to close a question as a duplicate, I know it is because I have interacted with the question before myself.
Is it possible for the default search to be in the active ...
2
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0answers
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Why do some questions not appear in Google results?
There are two very similar questions on SO (but not identical). Both contain the term "Derby" in the title and the word "datediff" in the question.
Post 1
Post2
When I searched Google for "derby ...
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2answers
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Search for unanswered question with my tags that older than 12 hours
Is there a way to search for questions (is:question) which are
unanswered (answers:0)
have my tags ("tags:mine" would be fine, but it seems not to be allowed)
have been asked 12 hours ago or before
...
3
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2answers
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Search for tags incl. wildcard (*) and additional search parameters
Does the new search engine also support searching for tags incl. wildcard and additional search parameters, like
[silverlight*] is:question
Currently this results in an empty list.
I expected it ...
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3answers
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Stack Overflow Questions and Google Search [duplicate]
How Stack Overflow questions and answers are available in Google search within a minute after posting? Which technology is being used for this both from Stack Overflow and Google side?
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3answers
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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 ...
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0answers
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Should closed duplicates show up differently in search?
Here's a quick feature suggestion, I think it would be helpful if a duplicate question which comes up during search will actually contain a visible link to the "canonical" question which it's a ...
5
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1answer
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Searching on Board and Card Games is broken
The search box on Board and Card Games is turning up empty results, even for obvious searches. It's been that way for at least an hour.
Using square brackets to search by tag still seems to be ...
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1answer
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Search doesn't work anymore for older questions, neither does the “Related” bar
UPDATE March 11: The situation is becoming unbearable. Internally there's no way to find older questions, and I expect that this will invite lots of duplicate questions on the main sites.
If I ask a ...
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2answers
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Order a search by oldest close votes?
I'm trying to help with the effort in Close all the typo questions. Is there a way that order the results of a search to have oldest-close-votes (those nearest to expiring) at the top of the results? ...
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0answers
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Filter questions on Stack Overflow [tag] OR [tag] [duplicate]
Is it possible to define a filter on Stack Overflow to see only the newest questions for a set of tags? Now I have three different app-tabs in Firefox and one tab for a specific tag.
For ...
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0answers
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Search should combine questions and answers by default
Currently, if you use the SE search the results contain both, questions and answers by default. The result of that is that the search results contain many duplicates, which I find rather annoying.
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1answer
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Why do so many of my carefully researched MSO questions turn out to be duplicates?
I seem to have a hard time finding good answers for my meta questions. I usually have an issue I'm curious about on SO, so I search MSO using appropriate keywords to see if there are any similar ...
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1answer
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Search both site meta and MSO from the Search bar
When I'm trying to figure out how something works on an SE site, I need to look at both my site meta and at MSO. Wouldn't it make more sense if the search bar on a site meta searched both that meta ...
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1answer
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Google indexing issue for keyword 'StackOverflow'
Maybe this is a temporary issue. I will check later in the night today and update/close this thread. [2013-02-27] For most of the world, this issue should now be resolved and non-repro, and the ...
4
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1answer
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Why :hasbounty search option was never implemented?
I found multiple questions about this within several last year:
How to search only unanswered questions with an open bounty ?
How can I search for bounty questions?
List previously featured ...
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2answers
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Search on Stack Overflow
Why are the instant question recommendations that appear when asking a question so much better/faster than the results from performing an actual query in the search field?
I understand that I can use ...
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1answer
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Searching on Stack Overflow [duplicate]
Why are the instant question recommendations that appear when asking a question so much better/faster than the results from performing an actual query in the search field?
I understand that I can ...
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1answer
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Search in badges
I wonder if there is a way to search in badges. I know that there are a lot of badges, so I can't go read them one after another. Is there a search option or something like that to get to the badge ...
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1answer
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Can't search on keywords with colon anymore
E.g. user:157882 p:selectonemenu p:column fails with no results while I'd expect at least one. Putting the individual words in doublequotes doesn't help either.
I'm 100% certain that this way of ...
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0answers
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Chat message search: Show user Gravatar in auto complete list when searching
Right now, the search functionality has an option to search for messages said by only one user. When typing in the username, you get an autocomplete list like:
As you can see, there are four people ...
