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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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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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Does network-wide search for tags work only with is:q?
I saw a discussion on one per-site meta today and I wanted to check whether something similar was discussed on some other meta sites. Since tags on various metas often have similar names, it seemed ...
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Difference between tag search and keyword search results format
When performing a [tag] search, the results show users' gravatar, badge count & rep, while a keyword search only shows username and a timestamp. Why is the format of results different?
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No tooltips for Advanced Search Tips
Two years ago there were tooltips for the Advanced Search Tips (see related post: Strange hint alignment in the Advanced Search Tips), but nowadays there are no tooltips. What's the reason to remove ...
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Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly on all the sites
Size of the search textbox in the top bar is increased suddenly. I can recall the size of the textbox being smaller previously.
Is the textbox size increased on purpose, or is this a bug?
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Tag search doesn't work properly
I am trying to do a search on SO where I include a few tags, and exclude a few:
[c#] or [java] or [winforms] -[android] -[android-studio]
Link to search
The problem is, questions with the tags c#, ...
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Searching for questions that has ([tag1] or [tag2]) and not [tag3]
Ok, I figured out that this doesn't do what I want. All questions without [iphone] tag but with any of its variants. So I figured that maybe I need to do [tag1] [tag3] or [tag2] [tag3], seems like a ...
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Searching gives repetitive Questions and Answers in single result page [duplicate]
I am searching on StackOverflow site for SolrNet based Question/Answers relating to edismax
But it is giving me same result in single result page but as different Q: and A: prefix and votes ...
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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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Exact search syntax matches only full words [duplicate]
Inspired by this question on Meta.AU, we found out that the search engine does have the "match this" exact syntax:
However ... "extra dependency" returns no results, "extra dependency?" returns 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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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 doesn't return all answers
Hmmm... either I'm stupid or something is wrong. I just tried Koper's idea to find my ratio of accepted and not accepted answers on SO.
user:me isaccepted:0
returns 52 answers,
user:me ...
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