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How can one search for a word that was removed during an edit?
I'd like to search for a word that was edited out of one of my questions. I don't know which question. How can one search for a word that was removed during an edit? (Input: word; output: list of ...
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What are differences between synonyms with and without merging from the practical point of view?
It is well-known that creating a synonym and merging two tags are two completely independent actions1 - sometimes a synonym is created and the tags aren't merged, sometimes two tags are merged without ...
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Why does "disclaimmer" return a result but not "disclaimer"?
Searching for "disclaimmer" returns a result but not "disclaimer", even though the matched text in the returned post is "disclaiming". Why?
(Ignore results pointing to ...
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What is the correct way to ask help finding an old SE Q&A I can't find anymore? [duplicate]
I am an active member of Sci-Fi and Fantasy SE and I found myself in this situation several times:
I see a question (sometimes answered) that piques my interest.
I read it, mark it down in my memory ...
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Data explorer query takes a lot of time and needs to be optimized
This is a Stack Exchange Data Explorer query which gets the top users on specific skill scores (example: JavaScript) based on a specific country (example: Egypt), and it took a lot of time until it ...
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Why did the recent maintenance notices point to a search for [maintenance] or [maintenance]? [duplicate]
The second link in these notices that were up today:
point to
https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/maintenance+or+maintenance?tab=Newest
Why the duplicate:
[maintenance] or [...
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How does searching by relevance work when searching a score range or threshold?
When I search for score:.-1 (for posts with a negative score) by relevance on Stack Overflow, I get a variety of questions and answers from a varying number of years ago. How are these results ranked?
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How can one search for some text in one's deleted chat messages?
I've had a few chat messages deleted by a mod and feeds in some chat room. I am looking for a few sentences I wrote in these chat messages. How can one search for some text in one's deleted chat ...
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Search only my posts across all sites
I wrote a post some years ago about a relatively complex bash script (with parameters) but I can't find it anymore, and I don't remember on which site of the SE hierarchy I wrote it. Is there a way to ...
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How can I search for NON-saved questions?
By using in:saves, it is possible to search among only questions saved by the user, However, using -in:saves does not appear to restrict the search to questions which the user has not saved.
Is there ...
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When using search and sorting by activity, user action is sometimes missing
On Puzzling.SE I used the search created:2023 and sorted by Active, and it looks as though some of the posts have a missing action between the user and the time. (The same bug as the one for migrated ...
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Bug? Answers not shown on some questions in search
I have long been using the answers:1 filter to limit search results to questions with answers, but it seems that it does not always work as described.
For example, this SO search returns 18 hits, with ...
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Is there a way to "flatten" a search across Stack Exchange sites without going to an external search engine (not that that's bad)? [duplicate]
Watching the Vsauce short The Only Element You Can Chew Like Gum I was intrigued by
This is indium, the only element in the universe that is safe, and soft enough to chew like bubble gum... it ...
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What's the purpose of using the 'inquestion' search operator?
I was looking at some examples from the help page on searching, and came across inquestion. As far as I'm aware of what it does is that it takes the id of the question
inquestion:50691
And restricts ...
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Search within my own questions for the entire Stack Exchange network [duplicate]
I learned that adding 'user:me' can help me search within my own questions.
How can I search within my own questions?
But this seems to work only for a specific site.
Applying the search term 'user:me'...
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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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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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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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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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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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What does the sorted by 'most frequent' search filter mean on stackoverflow.com? [duplicate]
Does it mean it is sorted by the most viewed questions recently?
Is there a way to search questions based on how much recent activity they have, to gauge how popular they are currently (highest score ...
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How can I disable answers showing up in the search results? [duplicate]
Sometimes, when I search on MSE, or any SE site, answers show up as well as questions in the results. How do I disable/hide the answers in the search results?
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Search a SO post that I closed with a certain keyword
Is there a way to search for a Stack Overflow post that I closed and that has a certain keyword say "this" or certain code say this in it?
I mean, I want to search by typing in the search ...
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"Search all sites", except one
I'd like to search all sites for "Wikipedia", but exclude Stack Overflow because the questions there are totally out of the scope I'm looking for.
By reading the How do I search? page, I see ...
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What is a reliable way to search for URLs containing tilde?
Let us say that I want to search (on some Stack Exchange site) for posts linking to some website, and the URL contains the tilde ~. For the sake of example, let us try python.net/~goodger. (I ...
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How can I bypass automatic string-tag conversion? [duplicate]
On Politics, I wanted to make a search for questions related to the conflict in Ukraine.
There are many questions on the topic which don't have the tag [ukraine] attached to them, but on searching for ...
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How can I design a search query on Stack Overflow to include specific keywords? [duplicate]
I would like to search for specific keywords within posts containing a specific tag. I designed the following query on Stack Overflow:
[Tag] AND "search-string 1" OR " search-string 2&...
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Why is searching for questions, that are not tagged as duplicate, giving duplicate questions results?
I want to answer some questions, so that I get some reputation, at least to do the most common actions in Stack Overflow. So, I wanted to search for questions without answers, in subjects I have good ...
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How can I find a question on Stack Exchange? [duplicate]
I have read a question a few years back, and it has been answered: 'What would be the last artificial light after apocalypse'
I couldn't find it with tags, and I'm not sure on which site it was asked ...
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