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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 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....
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Search (still) doesn't work well with URLs
This question, Search doesn't work well with URLs, is about searching for posts with links to http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2007/10/26.html, and includes that link as plain text in the question (...
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Search doesn't work anymore for older questions, neither does the "Related" bar
UPDATE March 11: The situation is becoming unbearable. Internally there's no way to find older questions, and I expect that this will invite lots of duplicate questions on the main sites.
If I ask a ...
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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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New Stack Exchange search engine ignores automatic "possible duplicate" blocks in exact-duplicate questions
I usually use the query "possible duplicate" closed:1 to search for questions closed as exact duplicates.
It worked well in the past. Now, however, the query now returns considerably fewer results ...
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How to Search Faster way Inside Favorite Question Tab?
I am having difficulties while searching questions from the Favorite Questions Tab.
Is there any way to get out of this. It pretty difficult to go through each and every question what we are looking ...
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Empty braces "[]" in search field are sometimes replaced by one or more plus signs "+"
Searching with one of those terms works just fine:
[]
[html]
[html] [css] [javascript]
[html] [css] []
[] [css] [javascript]
But in some other cases, when I remove a tag (like double click the tag, ...
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Search results on https://stackexchange.com are broken because of "insecure content"
The search results on https://stackexchange.com are blocked because of:
[blocked] The page at https://stackexchange.com/search?q=https ran
insecure content from http://www.google.com/jsapi.
I am ...
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Why is the "code:" search option not documented?
When searching for a post, it is possible to filter the posts by a string that must be present in a block code, such as with code:"preg_match".
This search option is not documented, though.
Does ...
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Is there any way of searching for the complement of another search?
I know that searching for
votes:10
will return all questions with scores of ten or more.
What I want to know is whether there is a way of searching for questions that don't fit into that category....
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Why using search Title:html5 not return anything while title:html5 works
Why using search Title:html5 not return anything while title:html5 works. Using Title: for other keywords works fine.
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To get all questions about “Ruby” that has 0 answers
Related to To get all questions about "Ruby" that is unanswered
https://stackoverflow.com/unanswered/tagged/ruby
that is, for questions that have no up-voted answers, is there a way to get ...
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How to search || and or on StackOverflow?
One of my questions was closed, because of being a duplicate. My question is how can I search for duplicates for my original question. The keywords in my mind are:
||
or
ruby
rails
Putting the ...
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How do I search for syntax stuff like "==="? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it possible to search for punctuation/special characters?
I just did a search on javascript === on StackOverflow, and was taken to the page with all questions tagged ...
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Searching for C & C++ identifiers like __FILE__, __func__, etc
I was looking for some information on SO about the C & C++ __func__ identifier, so I searched for: [c++] __func__. Only 3 of the first 50 results showed the full __func__ search term; all the ...
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Is there a way to search for posts linked to other posts?
Is there a way to search for posts that have links to other posts?
Say I have this post link text.
and I want to find all posts that have that linked in. Is there a way to do this?
If I just put ...
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Searching using intitle
I still don't understand how search by title works on SO. The search help has the example:
intitle:1 apples oranges
What is that '1'? That '1' is making me feel stupid right now and sites which ...
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Link to search help?
Where's the link to the search help? Shouldn't it be in the faq?
I came to it by accident when I hit enter on an empty search.
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How to search for special characters on Stack Overflow?
Which I search for something like "f-script" it seems like the - is ignored? Can I have special characters in my search terms or is it not supported?
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How can I search for a string containing a colon?
I'm trying to conduct a search for a specific class name (containing colons): e.g. search parameters [perl] Class::Data and am coming up empty:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?q=[perl]%20class::data&...
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How can I search within my own questions?
I'd like to do a search restricting the results to my own questions. I checked out the search tips and discovered this recommendation:
Advanced Super Ninja Search Options
posts from a specific ...
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Searching for keywords prefixed with underscores does not behave as expected
I am looking for a Microsoft C++ language extension, the __try keyword for exception handling.
On StackOverflow, the results show anything that matches try. This is not what I want.
I'd like to ...
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Why does searching for "elephant muscles" return a post on hobbies with neither word present?
In this post, Jeff links to a MSO search for "elephant muscles". It returns two* questions: the post itself, and this recent question on people's hobbies.
The latter result has no occurance of ...
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Is there a way to search for terms with punctuation?
I recently wanted to search for "underscore underscore try" and "underscore underscore finally" but the search feature removes the leading "underscore underscore". This sort of thing is also a ...
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