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Add users' deleted questions in search results [duplicate]
It's not a duplicate of Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users because I'm not only asking for the less than 1% of users with >10k rep who have the 'Access to Moderator Tools' privilege.
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Allow sort specification in site search [duplicate]
I regularly look for new Delphi question in [SO], using is:q delphi
When the results are displayed, I have to cick Newest
It would be nice if sort options could be added to the search query. What ...
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Should `is:answer` and `views:N` combine? Getting my answers sorted based on parent question view count
I wanted to update / improve my answers to the most viewed questions that I answered (cause I think that would make more sense than improving the most upvoted ones), however to my (slight) ...
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Regarding the "Find a Stack Exchange Community" search engine, can community members add "Also Known As" terms to help direct people to their site?
This question is in reference to this box...
I found that when I entered terms like "climate change", "clean energy", "renewable", "global warming", etc. that ...
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Please filter out modified posts that a low reputation user cannot see from the questions search report
I wanted to ask why I am being informed that a post was modified when I cannot see any modifications to that post, but I found the answer to that question in these two posts:
Question says modified ...
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Allow us to use the [-] symbol to exclude results in other operators, not just tags
I can use - before a tag to mean "not that tag". For example, I can search for "not python" on SO. However, this doesn't seem to work for other operators. For example, using -user:...
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Can we alias a question's title without creating a separate question?
For a long time, we have marked questions as duplicates as way of aliasing another question.
For example, I saw a question on a Stack Exchange site which was titled something like:
I am *onfused with ...
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Remove Teams-related 'searchOn' parameter from search result links
When you search for something and click on one of the tabs
the resulting URL contains a searchOn parameter:
https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?tab=newest&q=something&searchOn=3. If I ...
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Don't cut off question titles on the search result page
Feature request: Don't cut off question titles on the search result page. Example:
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Add to the /help/searching pages that is:q and is:a exist as short forms of the is:question and is:answer operators [duplicate]
In the "Miscellaneous Operators" section of the /help/searching pages, it says:
is:question narrows results down to just questions, and is:answer returns only answers
But I don't see it ...
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For paginated results, add a way to type the page number to which to navigate
I'd like to request a feature addition where navigating to the page of the result I desire to view (in any SE website) is able to be done by simply entering the page number of the results page you ...
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Add a way to sort results by date on https://stackexchange.com/search
Feature request: add a way to sort results by date on https://stackexchange.com/search (e.g., date of post and date of last activity).
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Linking "Similar questions" suggestions from every Stack Exchange website
Suggestions for an addition to the "Similar questions" feature
Each Stack Exchange site has a "Similar questions" list under which the user generates the title for their question.
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Could the path /questions/tagged/TAGS be added networkwide, too?
On any site, we can use /questions/tagged/TAGS - this is the URL you'll get after clicking on a tag. For example, the questions tagged discussion on this site or on some per-site-meta. And a similar ...
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Suggest tags from the top search bar when text search start with the character "[" [duplicate]
It would be comfortable or convenient when text search in the top search bar start with the character "[", the tags containing the text after "[" character are suggested.
It is ...
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Make query tips clickable in the search field
The search field has some query tips. That'd be convenient if one could click on them to help write the query. E.g., clicking on "is:question" would add "is:question" in the query....
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I would like to request that `answers:no` be interpreted to mean `answers:0`
I often type answers:0 closed:no into the search bar.
Today, I typed answers:no closed:no
There are questions with 9 or more pre-existing answers in the search results.
My feature request is: Use some ...
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Making the 'Original Question' and 'Last Answered' dates easy to see instead of assuming duplicate, as tech evolves [duplicate]
There's a lot of talk about removing or penalizing questions because they are "duplicates", but there's a lot of times when a question should be reasonably reasked because the technology or ...
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Search a SO post that I closed with a certain keyword
Is there a way to search for a Stack Overflow post that I closed and that has a certain keyword say "this" or certain code say this in it?
I mean, I want to search by typing in the search ...
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"Search all sites", except one
I'd like to search all sites for "Wikipedia", but exclude Stack Overflow because the questions there are totally out of the scope I'm looking for.
By reading the How do I search? page, I see ...
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Please can we document how tags and wild cards interact in the help center?
While writing this question I noticed we don't actually document how tags and wildcards interact.
As per the help pages we document them separately:
To search within specific tag(s), enter them in ...
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How can I bypass automatic string-tag conversion? [duplicate]
On Politics, I wanted to make a search for questions related to the conflict in Ukraine.
There are many questions on the topic which don't have the tag [ukraine] attached to them, but on searching for ...
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Hovering on a search result tag should give the option for adding to the search
When searching I don't always think to add relevant tags, or I discover a new tag that might help narrow down my search.
To make the process smoother, could a button to 'add to search' be added to the ...
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Confusing text "Search options not deleted" on search results page
When doing a search, the search results header shows a confusing text:
Search options not deleted
While this is correct, it only shows non-deleted posts, it may lead to confusion: most users don't ...
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Allow me to search through my bookmarks from my user page, like you can for posts
When you view your user page the search box, right at the top of the page, is updated with your user ID like so:
Searching from this page (by entering text into the search box) means I can see all of ...
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Automate adding questions from search to tag
Occasionally I notice a topic that has been discussed often enough to merit a tag, but there isn't one. For example, today on Raspberry Pi, a question popped into the active queue about using the ...
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Reverse lookup duplicate questions? [duplicate]
Is there a way to search for questions which have been marked as a duplicate of another specific question?
I've been aware of a particular technical problem for some time. I know for sure that other ...
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Allow ORing between more search terms like `inquestion:123`, or at least tell me the search failed
I just tried to look at two sets of answers, for different question:
I've tried using inquestion:12791 OR inquestion:11422 the result of which ignores the first search term.
I've tried using (...
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Is there a way to search among my followed posts?
Is there a searching key for followed posts analogous to inbookmarks:mine for bookmarks?
If the answer is no, may I enter a feature request?
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Searching for questions by users with at least x reputation [duplicate]
Is it possible to search for questions written by users with at least x points in reputation?
My motivation for asking is to find questions that are relatively well written and are probably not about ...
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SE "search" does not seem to include comments [duplicate]
Just noticed this today, not sure if it's expected:
The reason I'd be in favor of including comments in the search is then you have a higher chance of finding what you're looking for, based on ...
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Why can't we create a custom filter with only excluded tags?
I recently realized that there is no possibility to create customs filters with only excluded tags.
I'm wondering why there is this limitation as you can already, through the search field, search for ...
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In-site search still significantly deficient relative to external search engines
For years I have been peeved by how external search engines, in particular DuckDuckGo and Google, are often able to find better, even much better, matching questions on StackOverflow than the internal ...
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Allow all users to use the deleted:1 operator to find their own deleted posts
This question is not a duplicate of Show all of my question/answers to me even if they are deleted (which I was aware of and referred to it below) in its current state. That post received a status-...
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Cross Stack Exchange search through all of my questions?
I struggled with finding my own question that finally was on StackOverflow. First, I had checked Unix & Linux, then AskUbuntu, then SuperUser.
I will not be the only one with that problem, there ...
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Can something be done to not CAPTCHA every search from DuckDuckGo's bangs?
DuckDuckGo (DDG) has a feature called bangs that lets you use sequences of characters staring with ! (in this case !so) to redirect your browser to that site's search page. For example, if you type in ...
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Search for diamond (♦) symbol doesn't work [duplicate]
Just tried to search for the diamond symbol (♦) and got no results.
It seems that searching for any single symbol is not implemented. For instance:
Search for point
Search for comma
Even more, ...
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Include posts edited by the Community user in searches with wiki:yes/true/1
I found a way to search for all community wiki posts using wiki:1 (pic one) but this search does not include posts edited by the Community user (pic two).
Pic One
Pic Two
This could also be an ...
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Searching for “fasting” on Medical Sciences does not reproduce reliable results [duplicate]
On Skeptics meta, I wrote an answer in which I recommended:
Instead, why not post on Medical Sciences? I was going to say there are 500 posts containing the term “fasting” but many of the results are ...
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Include a day/date feature in the filter option | GUI
There are a lot of topics and a lot of questions. Also, there is an approach to a vote up and vote down feature for research effort questions. Also have a filter option for tag and most voted ...
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Add an option to include help and meta FAQ articles in search results
One of Stack Overflow questions has a self-answer inside the question and I wanted to add a comment about ability to self-answer and tried to find relevant links by searching within Stack Overflow. ...
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Enhance search on site feature [duplicate]
This search returns zero results.
Just include the duplicate suggestions behavior in that as an option
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Can we add "results found on these sites" and "sort by time" function to "search all sites"?
When searching all sites on StackExchange, sometimes the returned results are too many. I wonder if we can add the following function:
results found on these sites: so it gives a summary for the ...
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Search filter UI for recent posts
It would be useful, and probably easy to implement, to have a search filter UI for questions or answers posted recently, for example:
past 24 hours
past 7 days
past 30 days
past 12 months
any time
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Sort Stack Exchange search results by site?
I searched for perl on Stack Exchange to see where questions about Perl were being asked. I would like to see the results sorted by site on Stack Exchange (and maybe a count for each site). I know ...
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Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction?
Why does searching on Stack Overflow and other communities not have spelling correction? Something similar to Google's spelling correction...
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HEIC is for horses…
Seriously, I was attempting to search for threads in the Photography Stack Exchange site and did a search for “HEIC” with sorting ordered by “Votes” and it seems the search logic — whatever that might ...
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Is there a way to search using more advanced notation?
First, I want to note that I've read the Search Help. What I am looking for is a way to group tags together into more advanced boolean statements. For example, I would like to run the following ...
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How do I search for multiple tag combinations at once?
I would like to search for questions with foo and bar OR foo and foobar. So written in JavaScript it would look like this:
if ((foo && bar) || (foo && foobar)) {}
How can I achieve ...
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Using the "Search all sites" on the "All sites" page does something unexpected
I wanted to find the link to the site the name of which I forgot but knew a term it has to do with, so I went to https://stackexchange.com/sites which can be found by clicking "All sites" tab link ...
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