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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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