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Search type | Search syntax |
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Tags | [tag] |
Exact | "words here" |
Author |
user:1234 user:me (yours) |
Score |
score:3 (3+) score:0 (none) |
Answers |
answers:3 (3+) answers:0 (none) isaccepted:yes hasaccepted:no inquestion:1234 |
Views | views:250 |
Code | code:"if (foo != bar)" |
Sections |
title:apples body:"apples oranges" |
URL | url:"*.example.com" |
Saves | in:saves |
Status |
closed:yes duplicate:no migrated:no wiki:no |
Types |
is:question is:answer |
Exclude |
-[tag] -apples |
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How can I search for bounty questions?
There's no hasbounty: keyword on the search page. … Since September 2011, the hasnotice:1 search option can be used to show bounty posts, but that also shows other posts with notices (deleted question). …
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Search viewed questions
Good question, but that would involve tracking which links you clicked which I don't think SO does.
Which browser are you using?
If you're using Chrome (for example) you can click on History (Ctrl+H …
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Just the FAQs, ma'am? (how to browse the FAQ)
Are you talking about searching on SO or here on meta? If it's the former I would expect a lot of the posts to be marked as closed as they would have been migrated here.
The policy is to keep SO focu …
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Does the SE search engine search the term among comments and answers?
Check out the (hidden) search help page
is:answer apples oranges
will search for "apples" or "oranges" in answers only.
I don't think there's one for comments. …
6
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Eeek, the super-mega-expando search box is annoying, part 2
This has been fixed with the new top bar.
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Avoiding "closed" questions in a search
Add closed:0 to your search.
For example, to search for all the truly unanswered questions I use:
http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=closed:0%20hasaccepted:0%20answers:0%20[c%23]&tab=newest …
15
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Where IS the Stack Overflow FAQ?
Either here or on any site's meta search for questions tagged faq or faq-proposed. Stack Overflow's can be found here and here.
These will give you most of the information you need. …
3
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Is asking duplicate questions to improve searchability okay?
common enough for people to use it in preference to the existing question then yes asking the new question is acceptable, but only if the original question can't be edited so that it does turn up in said search … Stack Exchange works best when the question(s) contain the common search terms.
I wouldn't reference the original question in the text of your's though. …
3
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Why doesn't my question show up?
I see it at #3 in the list when the "newest" tab is selected.
Are you looking at a different tab?
Also have you forced a refresh - the page could well be cached. There will be more questions tagged " …
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Searching my own questions by tag(s)?
If you search for "user:me [tag]" you'll get all the questions you've asked with that tag. Unfortunately you'll get all the answers you've posted as well. … For the low-down on searches see the search page. …
1
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Should the search function also use your keywords to search Google?
Why would we want to show results from sites outside Stack Exchange? This is not what the network is about.
I can see one benefit however - showing results from other sites within the network. For ex …
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1
answer
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A search for closed questions containing a specific string isn't returning any results
I would have said that the search appears to be treating closed:1 as a search term rather than an option, but the results page seems to indicate that it is being treated as an option:
0
search results … for
posts containing
ritchie
search options
closed:1
NOTE
It seems to only be this particular search term. …
6
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To get all questions about “Ruby” that has 0 answers
Type in the following to the search bar:
[ruby] answers:0
For multiple tags:
[css] [html] answers:0
Check out the search page for more information. …
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How can I view questions with 0 answers, that haven't been upvoted, and that are tagged with...
Use the following search term:
[tag1] [tag2] answers:0
This will find all questions that have tags [tag1] and [tag2] and no answers …
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Should questions contain general categories in the title?
Anything that exists as a tag - programming language, board game etc, should not usually be added into the title. There might be cases where this is important, but most of the time it's duplicate info …