Questions tagged [search]
Questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by ElasticSearch.
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Should questions include "tags" in their titles?
I've seen questions edited to remove the language name from the title. Won't search engines - and folks using search engines - have an easier time finding them if these "tags" are kept as ...
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A new search engine for Stack Exchange
After the performance problems we have run into with Lucene.NET we've decided to make a change, we're moving the network on to elasticsearch.
Here's where to get started: https://stackoverflow.com/...
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Link up the excellent search engine that gives "Questions that may already have an answer" with the search box
The search engine that works behind the scenes to generate the "Questions that may already have your answer" is staggeringly amazing; even this first draft at a not very good title brings up ...
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Search in favorited questions? [duplicate]
I wonder if it is possible to search in just my favorited questions?
If not, can it be considered as a feature request?
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Searching Questions with n-Pages of Answers
I just opened up a question with 10+ pages of answers. It was more of a poll-style question, but it was one I wanted to participate in. I'm not a big fan of duplicate answers (adds more noise than ...
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Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users
I just tried to find a recent answer I wrote (or comment, can't remember), but I couldn't. I assume the question was deleted. Can the deleted:1 operator be enabled to 10k users? We can see deleted ...
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Add a "Magic 8-Ball" feature to the Ask a Question page [closed]
So many interesting questions get asked on Stack Overflow and then immediately closed (or worse yet, closed and re-opened for days on end) because they're subjective, argumentative, and fundamentally ...
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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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How can I search for specific comments?
Sometimes I can best remember a question by its comments. How can I search for a question that way?
Downloading the data dump is not viable because it may be a question posted today.
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Search within Favorites [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Search in favorited question?
The favorite feature on SO is right now a bit useless, at least to me.
I have 8 Pages of favorites, and sometimes I just remember "Hey, I ...
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Related questions in "Ask Question" page is better than the search tool
When I search for similar questions that I am going to ask, I usually can't find anything through the search box on Stack Overflow.
But when I enter my question on the "Ask Question" page, ...
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Please tone down or remove the auto-expansion of the search box
In the last few hours, the search box has taken on a new behavior: if you click on it, the toolbar blanks out, and the search text field expands, moving a few hundred pixels to the left. This causes ...
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How do I sort the questions by the number of views?
The question is in the title, how do I sort the questions by the number of view?
If not that, I'd settle for any suggestion on how to view the "Most Viewed" questions.
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How to find users by name
I have a whole bunch of people I would love to follow or at least check out on Stack Overflow. I know them from places like Github as well as personal friends. However I am having a really hard time ...
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Boost duplicate post search results by incoming link count
When you try to close a post as a duplicate, you are given the opportunity to search for the dupe target.
Still, searching for that dupe target you know exists is hard and more often than not I have ...
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Filtering questions by multiple tags
I know you can select a tag and then click on unanswered to view the unanswered questions for that tag.
But is there a way to view questions only for a certain set of tags > 1 tag?
Mainly I'd like ...
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Search changes for anonymous users
We wanted to share some of what's been happening on the network lately behind the scenes. We do our best to keep fires from being visible but that's not always possible and when it happens my goal is ...
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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 ...
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Autocomplete tags in search box
It sure would be nice if the search box would auto-complete tags. So if you start typing "[sq" it would offer an autocomplete menu containing [sql], [sqlserver], etc.
This would especially useful as ...
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Search is too accent-sensitive
A search for que does not show results for qué. I think this makes the site less usable--especially for Spanish beginners.
Can the search engine be modified to not be "accent-sensitive"? (Is that a ...
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How do I search for questions with (or without) specific tags?
How do I search for questions with specific tags?
How do I search for questions that have specific tags?
How do I search for questions that contain specific text, as well as specific tags?
Are there ...
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Can we have search default to "AND" instead of "OR"?
Search is defaulting to an OR combination of the search terms, which IMHO is a mistake (and also, BTW not the default on Google). I would prefer search to default to ANDing the terms instead of ORing ...
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Can I find out which tags I have created?
Can I find out which tags I have created? This would be interesting to know.
The tags could be highlighted on the users page for example.
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Improve tools for closing as duplicate
When closing a question as a duplicate, the goal obviously is to find not just some identical question, but the one that has the best answer.
The search process doesn't support that goal perfectly ...
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Add code search syntax to search tips
After Search just code we now have a way to search code, so something like code:"-->" searches for the infamous --> "operator". (Protip: it's not an operator, it's two)
Could this be added to ...
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How can I search for bounty questions?
Is there any possible way to search and list the bountied questions separately in SE?
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Search by multiple tags
I'd like to be able to search for questions by multiple tags; for example "questions tagged 'nhibernate' and 'web-services'".
I can get close by searching for "nhibernate web-services" but the ...
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View or search for unanswered questions with a certain tag
How do I view unanswered questions with a certain tag?
How do I search for unanswered questions with a specific tag (or tags)?
Return to FAQ index
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Improper use of rel=canonical is hurting search
When a question has many answers, the Stack Exchange software will split them onto several pages. As of mid-2009, the second and later pages have included a rel=canonical link tag pointing to the ...
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Is there a way to sort unanswered "my tag" questions by date, newest first?
How do I sort questions in the "my tags" tab of the Unanswered section of Stack Overflow by date, with the newest first?
Or, at least, how can I show only interesting tags, ordered by date, newest ...
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We need to be able to search for punctuation (symbols)
Every week or so you get, say, a question about the difference between '==' and '===' in PHP. Of course it inevitably gets closed as a duplicate but some people apparently feel the need to leave ...
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Don't exclude results that have punctuation just because the query doesn't [closed]
The new search function allows quoted queries that include punctuation, and this is fantastic, most of the time. However, the search considers the punctuation as part of the word itself, so searches ...
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Can we have an isdeleted:1 search option/operator? [duplicate]
It would make looking for the answers we have deleted so much easier...
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Search by keyword for answer / question I upvoted
I have upvoted many questions / answers, and my profile > votes > upvotes has 20 pages.
I am looking for a question which I upvoted long ago because I need it again, and I only know it contains ...
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Can we have a "isprotected" search operator?
Please add a search operator that selects for (or against) the protected status flag.
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How to find the right questions that I can answer?
I believe most people do it using tags. Surely some use the "newest questions" link above, or the others filtering options. Others just attack them randomly when they're feeling a thrust of need to ...
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Additional search features/syntax?
It would be nice to have more advanced search features, things that Google cannot easily or reliably provide.
Some ideas based on "Ability to search my stuff?":
[user:dbr] to find my posts (...
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Eeek, the super-mega-expando search box is annoying, part 2
The super-mega-expando search box is still annoying:
The expansion obeys crazy complicated rules. The box expands when you type in it (but not always: apparently inserting text always expands, ...
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Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?
I tried to find a related question here, but was unsuccessful.
Someone on SO asked what does "!!" mean... I tried searching SO and was presented with the search options page. Even Google fails at ...
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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 ...
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Possible to search questions I voted on?
I couldn't find any hint if it is possible to search for questions I voted on.
The only workaround I can think of is to add all those questions to my favorites but I'd like to distinguish between ...
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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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What's the single biggest barrier to entry on Stack Overflow?
Looking at the discussion here so far, a lot of it has understandably been focused on regular users; not necessarily high rep users, but people who have essentially "committed" to the site in some way,...
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Reimplement the broken searching within favorites functionality
According to this question there was a mechanism implemented to allow searching within sets of favorite questions, most usefully used when searching through your own favorite list (which for some ...
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No Search button - accessibility problem
Every time I need to search something when navigating with my mobile phone, I end up googling it because I can't search in SO. Since there is no visible "search" button, I just can enter the text in ...
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Tag Wikis should be indexed like Q&A in searches
Pursuant to a post I made about some questionable old questions, we need the ability to have Tag Wikis be searchable.
For example, if the Tag Wiki for C++ has a list of books, a user searching for "C+...
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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 using symbols is broken
We used to be able to use symbols in search, but that now appears to be broken.
I'd expect a search for [python] += list to return a result, but instead the search engine appears to put quotes around ...
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Add date range to "Advanced Super Ninja Search Options"
Can we have some date-related advanced super ninja search options? Something along the lines of:
maxage:30 find posts less than 30 days old
from:yyyy-mm-dd find posts no older ...
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Search filters by minimum rep, maximum views, maximum answers, etc
I'd like to see a few more advanced search filters:
maximum question votes
maximum views
maximum answers
date ranges
minimum asker rep
The existing search filters are a promising start, but more ...
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