Questions tagged [search]
For questions about search and advanced search features.
674 questions
8
votes
0
answers
119
views
How to filter out a specific user in search?
Tags can be filtered out as Questions filter "not" keyword does with not.
Is there a similar, or any other way to do that for user id search, i.e., filtering out those questions asked by ...
- 747
14
votes
0
answers
175
views
Please improve search
Searching "why is search so bad" does in fact reveal a few relevant Q&A - from 2017. The essence of the responses seems to be "they are working on it".
Ok. 8 years have passed ...
- 23k
-16
votes
3
answers
280
views
Replace Elastic Search with an LLM powered search system
I am very well aware of the policy that bans LLMs in posts and I agree with that decision. I am NOT asking for AI generated answers, if I want that I will ask ChatGPT. Instead, think about it as a &...
- 3,834
-11
votes
2
answers
144
views
Does search support text recognition in images?
I have made some mistakes by showing the names of local applications, customers. In some posts, and I'm busy removing them.
When searching for a piece of text, that's not that difficult: just search ...
- 17.7k
2
votes
1
answer
56
views
Filtering questions by multiple tags [duplicate]
I'm trying to find questions to answer. I filter by "c++" and "winapi" tags.
Problem is that the system seems to filter by "c++" OR "winapi" instead of "c++...
8
votes
1
answer
108
views
Advanced Filtering on questions
If I try to search questions that are older than "X" number of days with sorting set to "Newest" or "Recent activity". It ignores the days filter and shows the most ...
- 25.5k
9
votes
1
answer
139
views
Search results not updating [closed]
I normally read SO by searching for recent unanswered questions in my tags list. This is the link I've bookmarked:
https://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&q=intags%3amine%20is%3aquestion%...
- 785k
2
votes
2
answers
252
views
How to disable/remove the new AI search features? [duplicate]
It appears one of the two issues has been (temporarily?) resolved:
display of nonsensical responses to general string searches [removed/disabled]
autoconversion of random strings into tags [still ...
- 36.6k
-2
votes
1
answer
180
views
How to look for posts containing two words?
I'm having a problem with the ZoomControl control of my Utilities.dll file, so I decided to look for some information about it.
Google gave me (amongst others) the following answer:
That's indeed a ...
- 17.7k
19
votes
0
answers
121
views
We couldn't find anything tagged not [something]
When searching user:674039 -[python] it correctly finds my results that are not tagged Python.
But searching user:674039 [-python], which is what I'd incorrectly guessed the syntax would be, the ...
- 365k
11
votes
0
answers
104
views
Search results for multiple tags include Staging Ground questions matching only one of the tags
When performing a search for multiple tags at once, Staging Ground questions that match only one of the tags are included in the search results. This differs from the other, non-Staging Ground ...
- 22k
4
votes
0
answers
301
views
Should some tag synonyms (with many questions in both tags) be merged?
According to this SEDE query there are more that 950 tag synonyms having questions in both tags (essentially meaning they have not been merged). You can find such synonyms also in the list of all tag ...
- 161
40
votes
0
answers
1k
views
Concluding the OverflowAI Search Alpha on Stack Overflow
April 17th, 2024 update: All the steps we had planned for our rampdown are now complete. If you have any outstanding questions, please let us know in the comments or answers below.
Six months ago we ...
- 311
5
votes
0
answers
116
views
How can I search for comments? [duplicate]
Is it possible to search just for comments?
I tried putting is:comment in the search bar, but it apparently doesn't have any effect—the search still returned questions/answers.
- 33.4k
11
votes
0
answers
219
views
Add Discussions to SE-wide search or, at least, SO search
Tl;dr - can Discussions be included in network-wide search, please? Failing that, can we have some other way to search Discussions?
Berthold - CM said that right now there isn't a way to search ...
- 674