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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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2 answers
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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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1 answer
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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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Can something be done to not CAPTCHA every search from DuckDuckGo's bangs?

DuckDuckGo (DDG) has a feature called bangs that lets you use sequences of characters staring with ! (in this case !so) to redirect your browser to that site's search page. For example, if you type in ...
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Search comments by commentator's user-id [duplicate]

Often I find comments showing the commentator is quite knowledgeable and able to express concepts in a poignant way, and I would like to discover more comments by such a user (in a similar way one ...
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Search for an answer to a question by a user

I can search for my own questions and answers with is:q user:399694 and is:a user:399694. I want to have a search that does this: gets a list of all the questions by a user, then gives me a list of ...
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2 votes
1 answer
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Pass list of ids to search query

I've made a dataSE query that gives to me a lot of questions ids. Now I want to pass these ids to search query to find questions on the site as there I can see an actual state and the interface is ...
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2 votes
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How can I receive "immediately" notification about new questions posted that meet certain search criteria?

I noticed that you can do any tag combination with or and and (just separate the tags for space) operators in the search box and when you hit the search button you will be redirected to an URL like ...
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10 votes
1 answer
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How can I favorite [java*] while excluding [javascript]?

Let's say I want to follow all Java related questions on Stack Overflow. I decide to favorite java*. Everything seems to be working fine. My search includes questions about java, javafx, javadoc and.....
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Search Q&A is much less efficient than the engine behind the search while you type a question [duplicate]

I noticed that the search engine that brings up possible duplicate questions while you're typing a question works great. Is there a way to use the same search engine in the 'Search Q&A' search ...
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search terms with AND and OR operators and parentheses

I'd like to know if it is possible to use search strings like this: resource AND (allocation OR scheduling) I'm aware of this kind of question but it's not a duplicate because I'd like to have ...
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How to search for all questions with bounties across the network?

I wanted to search for questions on all SE sites that had a bounty. I am not sure if it is possible, and if it is how can I? I have seen other questions that show how to find questions on each ...
Christian Sirolli's user avatar
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0 answers
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Why is the SE search not as powerful/intelligent as suggestion while asking questions [duplicate]

Many times when I search on Stack Overflow (or other Stack Exchange sites), I don't get any relevant results. So, I then proceed to ask a new question and VOILA!!! Stack Exchange is able to suggest me ...
Codebender's user avatar
12 votes
1 answer
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Need of search bar in Stack Exchange API Documentation Pages

The is a need of search bar in Stack Exchange API Documentation Pages. Eg. the place marked in the snapshot
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9 votes
1 answer
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Is it possible to search for words/content in an answer given to a favorite question?

Sometimes I'm searching for some specific answer that was given to a question that I favorited. However, using the infavorites:mine functionality, I can only search through the favorited questions, ...
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