Questions tagged [search]
Questions about the built-in search functionality of this site powered by ElasticSearch.
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How to combine the exclude operator with the wildcard and url operators when searching?
Assume that xyz.com was a popular authoritative website in a SE community. There are many questions and answers with links to pages on this website. Now, the website is down. I am trying to find all ...
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Wildcards (*) in search are not expanded when next to a # symbol
Steps to reproduce:
Go to Stack Overflow and search for [c#*]
Expected: The search will expand to include any tag that starts with "c#", like [c#-3], [c#-4], etc. An example would be a ...
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Text searches explicitly (and silently) excludes text in code blocks
It seems as though this non-intuitive search behaviour is known to people who know about it, but confuses people just searching for content, especially on Stack Overflow (and other sites where code is ...
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Why doesn't this search find this question?
If I search for user:5825294 [c++-coroutine], I see Is there any guidance on how to choose what each component of a coroutine should do? [closed] listed, but if I search for user:5825294 [c++-...
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Answers are often failing to be re-indexed under new tags when their question is edited
I can search for answers by a specific user under a specific tag by typing user:xxxxx [tag] is:answer in the search field. I would expect the results to show all the answers that satisfy the given ...
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Cannot search with no "Filter by" checkbox checked when selecting tags
When I select no tags in the filters, and uncheck everything...
...I can search properly, I get the usual 24M questions of SO.
But, if I add some tags...
...and press "Apply filter", the &...
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Networkwide search seems to be ignoring the recent questions
I wanted to find whether some specific recent issue was discussed also on some per-site-metas.
So I tried to search with the restriction using creation date. To my surprise, the search did not return ...
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Moderator tools need the ability to search
Some key moderator lists lack any ability to search text. This includes
Open moderator flags
Moderator messages
Community Team escalations
User annotations
Somewhat related is that the Users page (/...
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The Search API does not show questions asked since April 1st - Related to the migration?
I have been seeing issues with the Stack Overflow API where questions created post April 1st 9AM EST do not show up when queried via the Search API.
Here is a sample query we used to confirm - https://...
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Locked:1 does not work correctly [duplicate]
In the advanced search it is written that if you search for locked:1, then only locked questions will appear in the results. But when I search for this, I come across mostly merged questions. This is ...
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Change "There are no questions tagged <X>" to "The <X> tag does not exist"
If a tag doesn't exist, then attempting to search for it results in a page stating that no questions have that tag:
There are no questions tagged web-hosting. View available tags for this site.
That'...
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More sorting for search
Is there a directional sort? I want to edit older posts (very odd but you know, it might be relevant to someone), and I have to go to the bottom and go to the last page.
Looking at the post Reverse ...
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Add users' deleted questions in search results [duplicate]
It's not a duplicate of Enable searching with deleted:1 for 10k users because I'm not only asking for the less than 1% of users with >10k rep who have the 'Access to Moderator Tools' privilege.
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Allow sort specification in site search [duplicate]
I regularly look for new Delphi question in [SO], using is:q delphi
When the results are displayed, I have to cick Newest
It would be nice if sort options could be added to the search query. What ...
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Should `is:answer` and `views:N` combine? Getting my answers sorted based on parent question view count
I wanted to update / improve my answers to the most viewed questions that I answered (cause I think that would make more sense than improving the most upvoted ones), however to my (slight) ...
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