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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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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. …
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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 …
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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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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. …
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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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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 …
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Hidden feature on the Search box in SO

If a keyword is a tag then it's converted into a tag search. "Java", "Dynamic" and "C#" are all tags, but "abc" isn't. To search for a word that's a tag as just the word prefix it by "+". … So your search will be: +dynamic in clause ... Also words like "in" and "or" etc are ignored in the search (or at least they used to be). …
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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. …
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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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Please Display Match Count after Search

You get an approximate count as there's the page count and number of posts per page at the foot of every page of search results. …
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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. …

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