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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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Documentation for Stack Exchange engine URLs?

I have found mentions of various Stack Exchange engine URLs (/question/NNNN, /question/NNNN/question-title-spelled-out, /answer/NNNN, /user/NNNN, /q/NNNN, /a/NNNN, /u/NNNN, etc.) scattered around in ...
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Why this url search does not work - url:*doi.org/10.1007/BF02684339*? How to modify it to find what I am looking for?

The following two posts both contain the link https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02684339 quasi-finite group schemes (revisions, source) and Criterion for constancy in Mazur's Eisenstein ideal paper (revisions,...
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How to search for raw URL [duplicate]

How do you search for a "real" URL when it is obfuscated with markdown? For example, if someone has this in a post: [bar](http://foo.com), searching for url: *foo* will return nothing. I guess this ...
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Why are relevance points added to the query string of search results?

I just noticed that search results now contain a new query string parameter named "s" with value in the format of s=[a]|[B] where "a" is the search result index and "b" ...
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Search question and answer Hyperlinks for a hostname?

Recently the URL www.antlr.org was changed from pointing to www.antlr3.org to www.antlr4.org. Needless to say there are links that use www.antlr.org for referring to www.antlr3.org that are now wrong. ...
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12 votes
3 answers
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Is there a way to search for posts linked to other posts?

Is there a way to search for posts that have links to other posts? Say I have this post link text. and I want to find all posts that have that linked in. Is there a way to do this? If I just put ...
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Link to search help?

Where's the link to the search help? Shouldn't it be in the faq? I came to it by accident when I hit enter on an empty search.
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