Questions tagged [search]
Questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by elasticsearch.
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Search for a tag didn't find the obvious result despite relevant synonyms and description text
I searched at https://stackoverflow.com/tags for windows forms and the search for tags did not return the desired tag winforms. There is even a tag synonym called windows.forms I'm surprised this ...
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Send users to the correct site's tagged questions from the SE search results
In the search results of stackexchange.com/search?q=*, allow people to click on a tag and go to that website with the tag page open.
For example, https://stackexchange.com/search?q=regex shows me ...
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“Search all sites” returns no results regardless of search term
Currently, there is a bug in the search feature on stackexchange.com. Namely, it always says that "Your search returned no matches." regardless of which term I type into the "Search all sites" box.
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Search for “similar questions” across multiple sites?
After typing the title of a question, the "similar questions" are displayed.
Is there any feature, that would provide such suggestions across all (or a configured subset of) stackexchange communities?...
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Issue with “Advanced search options” help page link in the “What is a locked post?” help page
In the end of the What is a locked post? help page of every Stack Exchange site, there is a link Advanced search options, which is redirecting to the "How do I search?" help page.
The "Advanced ...
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Is there a way to search among all of my questions from all sites?
I know I can see all of my questions from all sites. But I can't search among all the questions.
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Shouldn't I be able to see private (“Stack Overflow for Teams”) questions when filtering by tag? [migrated]
We just started using Stack Overflow for Teams. I noticed that on the main start page of SO, I see both public questions and our private team questions.
However, when I filter by a tag that exists ...
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Search bar’s tooltip popup hasn’t closing on tapping on many areas
When the top bar tooltip for the search is visible tapping anywhere on marked with FHRC areas doesn’t close the tooltip (FHBC) on my iPad:
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Advanced mathematics search tool
Last year there was an advanced search website for Stack Exchange mathematics (maybe for other sites, I don't know) where you could input part of a formula, and it would list all Stack Exchange ...
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'Tips for searching' dialog takes some time to load
On clicking the search field, the searching tips dialog appear. However, it doesn't appear immediately, it takes some time.
It can be noticed that the dialog is empty for like < 500 ms and then ...
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New search on mobile as full site breaks layout
One thousand words:
The search hints are obsuring the search box, which isn't particularly helpful.
My screen has an admittedly small resolution of 360x640 720x1280
I'm using Chrome on Android
I'm ...
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One of the new search hints is wrong
There's a new popup helping you with searching, but one of the hints is wrong:
Searching for score:3 will return answers as well as questions, and it's not the number of (up/down)votes which counts, ...
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Issues with the new popup guide for searching [duplicate]
I just noticed that addition.
Searching for posts by author does not need the brackets [], and can be clearer as to what "1234" is. A new user may think 1234 is a username example.
Tag guideline can ...
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Searching for own unanswered questions seems to no longer work
I am trying to get a list of my unanswered questions (or questions with no accepted answer) across the Stack Exchange network.
There is an old meta question asking exactly that. Its answer suggests ...
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Why is the site so set on putting down new users?
Disclaimer:
If I mention any users in this post, I am not attacking them personally. I do not know them and think that they are good people.
I am slightly new to this site, why is it that so many ...
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Lists of questions sometimes don't show how many answers
Sometimes lists of questions don't indicate how many answers they have received:
Yes this particular question has not only received an answer, that answer has been selected:
Why doesn't the list ...
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Query for no. of many questions I have answered which are closed later
Is there a query to know how many questions received answers before they are put on hold and I am one of the users who wrote an answer before the question is closed?
If it looks confusing, let me ...
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How to use a search regex for tags in the Stack Exchange API
I want to simulate the question search using regex behaviour of Stack Overflow using the Stack Exchange API.
For example, using c++* for tags will give questions which have c++ as prefix in tag such ...
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Search comments by commentator's user-id [duplicate]
Often I find comments showing the commentator is quite knowledgeable and able to express concepts in a poignant way, and I would like to discover more comments by such a user (in a similar way one ...
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Is there a way to search for a question (or an answer) that mentions a tag?
I see some questions (but mostly answers) that mention tags. For example I could mention the burrito tag here.
Is there a way I could search for posts that have mentioned a particular tag?
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Deleted posts still show up in search results (sometimes)
This deleted Mathematics question still appears in the search results if you look for its content, e.g. when searching for "it seems they forgot to take the square root in the denominator":
SEDE says ...
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Can we get the ability to search for “user:current”? [duplicate]
On some pages, you can put “current” where the user ID would go and it will redirect to the logged-in user’s version of the page; for example, https://scifi.stackexchange.com/users/edit/current would ...
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Sort user's posts based on content length
I am looking for a way to sort the list of my answers on a Stack Exchange site by the size of content (number of words). I am looking to hand pick article length answers that I have written in past.
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Searching deleted posts in the Android app [duplicate]
I would like to know how users with 1k reputation can search deleted posts. I don't think they will be searchable through the regular search icon at the top of the Android app, but I don't know.
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Is the tag synonyms search box supposed to be case sensitive?
Is Tags Synonyms search case sensitive? While the tag names are all in small letters, when I search with any capital character in the search field, it is not returning any result.
For example: when I ...
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Search Results page title doesn't 'understand' search options
When using the is:q search option (= questions only), the Search Results page correctly notes I'm using a search option, but the page title thinks it's a regular search term: it shows "Posts ...
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Search questions based on two tags [duplicate]
I want to propose a feature:
search for questions based on two tags.
Why is this needed?
There are a lot of tags that are about a topic which cannot be independent.
For example, let's assume I'm ...
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Improve search – e.g. searching for “writing” should list results with “writing.se”
This morning, I was writing an answer where I wanted to link to this question: Writing.SE clamours for graduation. I remembered three words in the title: 'writing' and 'clamours', the latter since I ...
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How to find answers which use code snippets?
How can I find a list of answers which use code snippets?
If I want to find answers having a code block for a specific tag, I can find it with the following search query:
code:true is:a [C#]
Is ...
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Are there any statistics on how often a search in the Help Center ends in “0 Results”
I saw an MSO post (10k only) where the user tried to search for their issue in the Help center.
Their search term didn't return any results which shows them this page:
Before I'm proposing a ...
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Wrong API response type, user search [duplicate]
Location
Page: https://chat.stackexchange.com/search
Field: «when said by» [name=user]#user
When no result is found, the API responds with the plain text «No records.»
Then JavaScript code tried to ...
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Why can't 10K users search for others' deleted posts? [duplicate]
I have been trying to get to 10 thousand reputation for a while on Science Fiction & Fantasy (taking a while :P) but learned something weird a few weeks ago: users with 10,000 reputation can't ...
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Search on all sites: tag links lead to the 404 link not found page [duplicate]
Searching on all sites, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/search?q=dokuwiki, gives me a list of questions with tag links.
Clicking one of the tag links, e.g., https://stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Augment search with a duplicate-target keyword or similar
Often when I search for the duplicate when voting to close as duplicate, the duplicate target I search for has been used as duplicate before. So one way to search for dupe-targets (or maybe reverse-...
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Cannot add tags via the Stack Exchange Android app [closed]
When I try to add a question on the "Android Enthusiasts" site via the Stack Exchange Android app, it doesn't allow me to add any tags. There is a text field within which to add tags on the "Ask ...
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How do I modify this query to search for specific tags?
I am forking this query, which essentially outputs the time between the question being asked and the answer being given. However, I am trying to modify the query to only search for java. I tried this:
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Get rid of special characters when searching for a tag
According to this, there is a limited number of valid characters for a tag. If we don't allow special characters in a tag name in the first place, shouldn't we get rid of special characters such as ...
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Why does user searching start at 3 letters?
Why does the user search only activates after at least 3 letters have been typed?
Searching for tags does not seem to have this mechanism.
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How to search a meta for a tag on the main site? [duplicate]
For example, there is an exception tag on Stack Overflow. I can search Stack Overflow for questions tagged with exception by searching "tag:exception". However, on Meta Stack Overflow, there are ...
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Searching the tags of all Stack Exchange sites before asking a question, to find out where the question belongs
Let's imagine I want to ask a question about "big data" and I am not familiar with Stack Exchange.
Normally I should guess which stack is the right stack to ask my question, but is there any way to ...
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Is it possible to know which questions I have protected? [duplicate]
I have protected a few questions on a Stack Exchange website. Is it possible to know which ones? I don't remember them anymore.
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Search appears to be broken
Something appears to be wrong with search in chat and on main.
There's roughly 2 million posts containing "thanks" on Stack Overflow. Search claims there's none. The same on MSE - search yields no ...
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Is there a way to search content I've touched?
I believe I've finally discovered the answer to the question was ... 42 ... or something like that. The only problem is that, many months after the question was asked, I now need to find the question....
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Let me search for embedded Youtube videos
Some sites allow embedded Youtube videos. (Here is a list of such sites.) However, these videos cannot be found via search.
For example, this answer has a broken embedded video with this URL: https:/...
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Search for an answer to a question by a user
I can search for my own questions and answers with is:q user:399694 and is:a user:399694. I want to have a search that does this: gets a list of all the questions by a user, then gives me a list of ...
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Question shows up when I search for a tag, but not in a Filtered Questions
This question shows up if I search for the [clojure] tag, but isn't included in the Filtered Questions list for the same tag.
The only reason I can think of is the question starts with a Javascript ...
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Search functionality is easy to miss on Stack Exchange sites
Came to the Parenting site and it took a while to find the search functionality. This blends into the top bar so much it would certainly take forever to find the search window being hidden in plain ...
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Save search query with enabling filtering (advanced filters)
Is there an option to filter questions using the followin search query?
[feature-request] closed:no score:10
If I do this now there are no questions found.
I've it about this feature:
I've added ...
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How can I find all my questions (all stackexchange sites)?
I'm active on many stackexchange sites, and I've asked a question recently. I know the topic of the question, but not the exact tile, and more specifically, I forgot on which site I had been asking (...
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Possible bug - page not found when clicking any tag in Stack Exchange main page search results [duplicate]
Possible bug (probably quickly fixed?): I get "page not found" pages when clicking any tag in the Stack Exchange search results.
Example: https://stackexchange.com/search?q=test
Click on a tag of ...
