Questions tagged [search]
Questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by ElasticSearch.
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Is there a way to search all sites at once?
I was just wondering if there were any posts already about which tablet would be the best buy for this holiday season.
I wasn't sure which site I should look on.
Super User maybe? Electronics maybe? ...
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How do you search all sites from the search bar or using responsive view?
I have a two-part question
At the top of every site, there is a search bar.
Is this search bar only relevant to the specific site? I.e. meta, photo, etc.
Can I look up all sites from the search bar ...
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Can we update SE to semantic searches? [closed]
It can be very frustrating to participate in a site I have turned to for over a decade for help with a range of topics (C++ programming, Linux, Java, Python, Bash, role-playing games, wilderness ...
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Searching multiple StackExchange sites: Build it into the UI
Here's the suggestion, approaching the issue of question area51 question overlap from the reader's side:
1) Create a search feature on stackexchange.com which allows searching of all the SE sites ...
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Include tags in answers entries on search results
When I perform a search, the result entries display the relevant tags, but only if it is a question link. If it's an answer link, there are no tags displayed.
Sometimes I can easily infer the language,...
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How can I get the total number of posts for a user that have a certain tag in them?
User abbood (myself) has eight posts (in total) that have the tag cocoapods; six questions and two answers.
I thought that this query should simply get all eight:
SELECT Count(*)
FROM posts p
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"Hot Network Questions" cross-linking is polluting Google Search Results
The way Stack Exchange cross-links sites via "Hot Network Questions" is causing Google search results to be pretty useless... so I'd like to request that "Hot Network Questions" be removed from all ...
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Can a search include mathematical expressions?
It's difficult to search for math-related topics without using math expressions. Can this be done somehow? I'm talking about things beyond +, - , / , etc.
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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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How to search all meta sites
I saw a question on a meta site earlier today, but didn't have an answer then. I thought about it for a while, and now have an answer. The problem is I can't remember which meta it was on. Is there a ...
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Search posts with specific combination of tags
Let’s say I want to obtain a list of all topics that have tags [x] & [y], but not [z].
For example, let’s say a topic has the below tags [x] & [y]. Then I should have this topic in my search ...
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Why are we deleting off-topic closed questions at all?
What is the benefit of deleting off-topic closed questions at all? What is wrong with the idea that they couldn't stay in closed state forever?
Closed question are searchable by the entire community (...
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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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Some questions about search [closed]
I want to search questions answered by me and some another user. How can I do this? I don't see an "and" operator.
Is there a way to search through comments (answers under which there is ...
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How can I search for a keyword across the questions I posted on an SE site and the answers that they received? [duplicate]
I posted several questions on one of the Stack Exchange websites. How can I search for a keyword across these questions and the answers that the questions received? Ideally I'd also be interested to ...
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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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How can I sort questions by date(s) on the all-Stack Exchange search results page?
How can I sort questions that are returned to queries on the overall Stack Exchange search (so not a meta site, nor a main site like Stack Overflow), by date?
For example, how could I sort the ...
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Suggestion: Could the search box have the initial input focus when going to the home page?
As stated in the title, when going to the home page, could it be possible to have the input focus in the search box since this is the place most users go?
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Query view counts give incorrect results
Consider this query, which yields 3 questions (today).
[hortonworks] -[hortonworks-data-platform] is:question views:10..10
Anticipating the Meta effect, the view counts will change, but here's what ...
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The question view count displayed in a search result page is inaccurate [duplicate]
Example from android stackexchange: 7 views in search:
vs. 168 views:
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How do I search a specific user's answers?
I have a question, that I know was answered by a specific user, but I can't find it via a general search. Can I narrow my search to that user's responses? If not, please make it so.
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How can I search my comments using some keyword(s)?
Here's my problem: I know I've posted something on Stack Overflow about a particular topic. I know how to search all my answers with a given keyword, and that feature works well. But, if I don't ...
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Add search functionality to the comments tab in users' network profile pages
This has come up a few times in:
How can I search for specific comments?
Add Ability To Search Comments Only
The solutions there were to search using Google. Like MMyers says in the top linked post,...
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GPT-generated "search as you type" responses
There is a current hot meta post on SO regarding banning ChatGPT answers, which I fully agree with (plus some).
However, I still think GPT bots themselves have a lot of value. They're trained on ...
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Chat RSS feed for tagged/xxx broken
When you use the tagged/ prefix for a search term in chat, you (are supposed to) get all messages with a specific tag. 1
However, the generated RSS link in the lower right corner of the results is ...
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Why does the Search icon look weird on small screen widths? [duplicate]
On a small screen width, the search icon looks like this:
In my opinion, the search button should look like all the other icons and not stand out as if it is 3D. I don't recall seeing this before, so ...
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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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How do I extract posts from Data.SE that contain code in them?
I'd like to extract posts from Stack Overflow using Data.SE, that contain code in them. I am mainly interested in the posts that come from the tag [artificial-intelligence]. Here is the code that I ...
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The tags below posts on search results occupies the same space as the page number navigation links on narrow screens
This bug appears when the view gets sufficiently narrow (the first four pages, and the last four pages are less affected). This seems to have started happening in the last week or so.
The links to ...
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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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Stack Overflow search engine for browsers
I would like to use Stack Overflow as a search engine in my browsers.
Most of the time when I have a programming problem, I would like to search only on Stack Overflow, or Stack Exchange sites. ...
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How can I find the "historically significant" questions?
Questions that are locked by historical-lock are very likely to be hilarious1, 2. Off course that is unless someone deletes them first because he doesn't like fun, so he thinks nobody else does.
I ...
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Is it possible to search comments like we can search chat messages? [duplicate]
In chat.stackexchange.com we can search all chat messages filtered by keywords, user id, and room id. The search result has unique URL to a chat message.
Given that there is also a unique URL for a ...
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Unable to search for "no" in chat rooms
In chat searches, any search for the text "no" yields no results:
"No" said by me in the Tavern (no results although I have definitely said "no")
RSS Feed for "no&...
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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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Searching my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites
I wish to get a list of my own unanswered questions over all Stack Exchange sites.
It seems you can run SQL queries with data.stackexchange.com, something I learned only today. Is there a way I can ...
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Why can I not filter the Posts table in data.stackexchange by tags?
While trying to write a query on https://data.stackexchange.com/datascience/, using the Posts table, I cannot filter by tags.
For instance, if I try to extract the tags from the Posts table:
select ...
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Add "hasImage:1" or "img:1" advanced search operators
There are some great posts on SO and other SE sites with explanatory images that give a better understanding of the problem or its solution.
Recently I was searching for a particular post I had come ...
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Searching for a word within posts randomly returns tag results instead [duplicate]
When I use the search function within LawSE to find posts with a particular word, it randomly adds square brackets [ ] around what I'm looking for and so only shows tag results.
I've carried a brief ...
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Some search words get converted to tags [duplicate]
On meta I just tried to searched for
support stackoverflow
and wondered why it got converted to a tag search
[support] [stackoverflow]
Is this intended behaviour and if so on what conditions? I ...
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Close search "help" box on unfocus
I don't specifically require any accessibility features, but I prefer to use the site with my keyboard sometimes. When I tab through the link/input fields the help box that appears below the top-bar ...
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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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Tags with certain special characters don't display correctly in search results
On Spanish Language Stack Exchange we have an [españa] tag. It is correctly displayed in the list of questions tagged [españa]:
but not when searching for keywords, where it shows as [espa#a]:
The ...
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How can you find questions with SE's search features that have now-defunct tags?
Edited Version of Question:
When a tag synonym is approved, the old tag becomes defunct. Unfortunately, it becomes harder to find questions that are tagged with the now-defunct tag. This seems to me ...
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Tag synonyms and searching
In relation to an ongoing election, this post was mentioned: Include information about elections in the newsletter. One of the tags on that question is newsletter, which is a synonym of community-...
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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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Help Center page search results appear to be outdated by the tag email change
I see that email notifications for tag subscriptions was recently removed, but when I search the Help Center on various sites, the search results still indicate "email" as a possibility, ...
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