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Was the new AI search feature "test" officially announced?
In the last few hours many users have noticed the new AI powered search feature that has been added to the site.
I'll leave bugs reports and general commentary on how ineffective this is to other ...
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Search seems to be almost completely broken
Advanced searches such as closed:yes and user:me are returning no results or the wrong results. I'm pretty sure there are closed questions on MSE, for example:
And these aren't my posts:
Even a ...
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Stack Overflow blog : same post with different languages in the search result
While conducting a search on the Stack Overflow blog using the keyword "Winter Bash 2017", I observed the presence of three posts sharing an identical title. Upon examining each post, it ...
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Enhancing Stack Overflow blog search: filtering out test entries
In the Stack Overflow blog search, upon entering the keyword "Test", I was presented with a compilation of blog post titles.
However, it's worth noting that among these results, two entries ...
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Server error when attempting to use the inquestion:<id> and inquestion:this search operators
When I try to use inquestion:389834 or inquestion:this, I get a 500 HTTP status code:
I would really like to use this function.
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stackexchange.com search is down
All attempts to do network-wide searches via stackexchange.com (example) are returning the "Oops! Something Bad Happened!" page:
This is a problem, as this is the only way that Charcoal ...
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Search has an extra border in the topbar
As seen in the screenshot, there is an extra border over the search icon on the topbar. This started today, coincedentally with the start of Winter Bash, but not caused by it as confirmed by staff.
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Questions not tagged [x] appear on the tag's question page
I'm not sure when this started, but I've only noticed it in the last hour. It appears that questions not tagged with a particular tag are appearing within that tags listings. Example: https://...
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Searching for moderators in the Moderators tab on the /users page is broken on all meta sites (except MSE)
Searching for any moderator on a meta site (except MSE) in the Moderators tab on the /users page does not return any results at all.
Here's a GIF showing how searching in the Moderators tab works on ...
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Searching for a username on a Meta site under the "Participation" tab throws a 500 server error
Attempting to search for a user on a child meta site's /users page, with the "Participation" tab selected, will always fail, and throw a 500 server error in the console.
Here's a .gif ...
SpevacusMod
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Markdown formatting problems in the Help Center article "How do I search?"
In the Help Center article How do I search?, there seem to be a few Markdown formatting problems:
In the section "Boolean Operators", the subheading "OR operator" is not rendered ...
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Possible bug preventing chat room message search
It seems that the chat room search feature is not working. The search result always displays "0 messages found". It is not displaying messages that contain the search query, even if those ...
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Search is not working in individual site's winter bash leaderboard
In the individual site's leaderboard, there is a search box with a placeholder "Type to find users".
When typing any user's name and hitting enter, there is no matched data is returned.
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Missing space between "Results found" or "Results for <keyword>" and "Search options"
When conducting a search where the results page has "Results found" and "Search options" next to each other (that is, searches that don't contain tags but use a search operator, ...
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Searching on Help Center doesn't return anything network-wide
Searching on Help Center doesn't return anything, even for keywords that I've been often using before:
"promotion" (for questionable spam)
"reference" (for referencing other)
&...
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Search on Meta is slow (sometimes)
During the last hour or so, searching on Meta Stack Exchange can be very slow; searching only on a tag still works as normal, probably because it automatically redirects to e.g.
https://meta....
GlorfindelMod
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Not all apples and tags are allowed to translate
There is an exclude section on the bottom of the search page. That section contains two untranslatable words: "apples" and "tag". At the same time these words are translated on the ...
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Chat search returning no results
Searching for anything on chat.Meta, chat.SE, or chat.SO is currently coming up with zero results (including words that I know have hits because I've searched for them before, such as the name of my D&...
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Answer links from search pages do not load the page at the linked answer
This appears to have started breaking in the last four hours or so.
To reproduce:
Do a search for answers on a Stack Exchange site. For the sake of a demonstration I'll use is:a on Meta Stack ...
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Search is broken again
Just now search is broken again, here on MSE at least. It takes an incredibly amount of time before returning 0 results.
This very well could be a regression of Search is extremely slow
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Search is extremely slow
The search functionality is broken, it seems, e.g. https://meta.stackexchange.com/search?q=test only loads after more than a minute of waiting. This happens on multiple sites, e.g. also on Stack ...
GlorfindelMod
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Search on MSE is broken [duplicate]
I was trying to use the in page search to find a post and... it doesn't work. It just does nothing for a long while, then throws me a we're currently offline for maintenance.
While I use an ...
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Search doesn't properly recognize smart quotes and reliably return the same results
This is not a duplicate of my prior post Allow search to recognize smart quotes the same way as straight quotes, which was a feature request asking for smart quote support, as it was previously ...
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Allow search to recognize smart quotes the same way as straight quotes
Search has a feature: enclose any specific phrase you're looking for in "quotes", and it will search for that exact phrase.
However, that operator only works with "straight quotes", and not “smart ...
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Search has become much harder to find on narrow windows
Since very recently, search has become a lot harder to reach.
First, the keyboard shortcut s no longer works. status-completed
Second, there used to be a reasonably wide text box at the top of the ...
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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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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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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, ...
GlorfindelMod
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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 ...
GlorfindelMod
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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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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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Exact phrase search with tag gets wrapped with additional set of quotes on Meta.SE
Only on Meta Stack Exchange, searching with an exact phrase in the search box will result in the entire query wrapped in an additional pair of quotes.
For example:
[feature-request] "There are no ...
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Unparsed HTML shows on search result page
When you search on any of the SE network sites, with a tag (so that a description is shown); it shows the tag info content box, with the highlight-search-term span elements.
For eg. I searched [c#] ...
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Duplicated tag description
When you click on someone's profile tags, it shows a search of posts by that user on the selected tag. However, the tag description appears twice in the page and there's not much left for the actual ...
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Alignment issues on Meta SE search results page
The search field is too wide, causing the Search button to overlap with the site icons in the Hot Network Questions list.
The tag description box seems to extend too far to the left, or the text ...
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The title "URL" in Advanced Search Tips should not be uppercased for localized sites
In the Advanced Search Tips table the title "URL" is uppercased via css style:
HTML sourse looks like this:
<th scope="row" class="tt-uppercase">url</th>
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Title is very small in search results
After the new left nav and responsive design changes were pushed, I noticed the title of questions in search results became very small: (search example)
Can the title please be given a bigger ...
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Documentation-related privileges are still searchable in the help center
Related: "Secret" Documentation Privileges on sites other than SO
When searching something in the help center (e.g. "comment"), documentation-related privileges are still shown in the help ...
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Update help center article on search to reflect the new position of the search box
The page /help/searching says:
Enter search terms in the search box that appears in the upper right corner of every page
But the box is not there.
user315433
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Let's start coding on the search page
First, let's do some random search. You'll be welcomed by a line of code:
MSE is not the only place to see this. It seems to be network-wide.
Is it a bug or a feature?
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Tags with "+" in them broke recently
It seems that the parsing of tags with plusses (+) in them broke recently. This is very inconvenient for topics like C++.
See these questions tagged with c++: "[c++]".
Now, if you select another tag ...
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Search options are not separated with spaces
I'm trying to find the design bug questions which are raised by me, those are not yet with status flags, not as duplicate and not closed with the query below:
user:me is:q closed:0 duplicate:0 [bug] ...
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"Results found containing ___" too close to header
Search for something,
anything,
everywhere
really
and you will see that "results found containing __" is just a little too close to the header. It's not like there isn't the space ...
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Search doesn't say how many results there are anymore
Before, there was something that said how many search results there are, like this:
I took the above screenshot from this bug report, which means it was there two days ago at least.
But now, ...
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No more than 10,000 results are visible in search
If you make a search for something that returns more than 10,000 items in result. For example, search for only one letter "a" return 161,338 results on MSE. But if you select a page where 10,000+ ...
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On hold posts marked as closed in search results
According to this answer you can use advanced search to find questions that are on hold now. I noticed that that search produce a list of questions marked with [closed] in titles:
But if you open ...
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Search just broke
Searching currently isn't possible on Meta Stack Exchange.
It worked a few minutes ago and all other sites seem to still work. I get directed to this link: https://meta.stackexchange.com/error?...
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No questions in search results
It seems that the search feature currently only returns answers. Any is:q search finds zero results and omitting this, I only get answer results. I've confirmed this on Code Golf, Literature, Stack ...
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Advanced search API not returning results
When you set the minimum time to 2017-09-16 there aren't any results returned:
https://api.stackexchange.com/2.2/search/advanced?order=desc&min=1505520000&sort=activity&site=stackoverflow
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