Questions tagged [search]
Ways and methods to look up data and information from a service, index or some other collection of information
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Search Syntax on wayback-machine
I am looking for a way to search on archive.org for URLs of a website, that contain a certain word.
(all my explanations here use 'example.com', but it's not the actual website i am searching for)
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Finding largest version of image with Google Image search [closed]
It used to be that one could search by image in Google Images and then "Find Image Search" and it would come up with search results with a thumbnail that could be clicked to see the actual ...
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Google Sheets Conditional format when cell contains any word from another cell (partial text match)
I am currently using =regexmatch(A1,"(?i)N02|N22|J25") in column A to highlight the cells that contain these terms.
But I don't want to hardcode it as the search terms keep changing.
The ...
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Is there a way to search backward in Google Spreadsheets?
When I click CTRL+H then I can open big search box in Google Spreadsheets. It searches forward for specific text all sheets from the position of my cursor. But is there a way to search backward?
I ...
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Why Google doesn't recognise "chatgpt" as a searchable term?
Google must be well aware of "ChatGPT" developed by OpenAI by now after issuing a code red.
However when I made a below simple search, it offered an auto correction as "chatbot" in ...
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Can I query/search Google Calendar for all recurring entries with end dates?
How can I query/search Google Calendar for all recurring entries with end dates?
What I need is a list of:
Distinct scheduled meetings
Which are recurring
But ONLY those where recurrence ends (either ...
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How can I search for a string across all comments in a PDF on Acrobat Web? [closed]
I have opened a PDF on Acrobat Web. It has a few comments by others. How can I search for a string across all comments in a PDF on Acrobat Web?
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Is it possible to find public Google calendars?
I want to embed a Google calendar in my organization's intranet site. Google provides three options for sharing the calendar:
Make it visible to anyone in the organization
Make it visible only to ...
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Why don't I find any expected results when google-searching with search terms that start with dashes?
Background: When I try to google search something like "gcc -Wall" (for example,) to find documentation on the -Wall flag's meaning for GCC, it looks like I get the same search results as if ...
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Search items by its condition on Amazon?
In Amazon, there are some amazon URL parameters to filter the item result on the amazon search, such as &pct-off=50-75.
I wonder if there is any way or a URL param to filter and show only a ...
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In Github Smart Search How do you search across all repository [duplicate]
I know you can search multiple repo via comma separation, like below.
But is there an option to search all the child of the source code base directory where in below case I want to search "...
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Varying Number of Wayback Machine Captures Found
When querying the wayback machine, I've noticed that the number of captures of pages varies based upon the precision of the url for the search. For example, the search URL of https://web.archive.org/...
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How do you clear Gmail search history?
How does one clear all of the Gmail search history at once, from the desktop web site (gmail.com)?
I poked around in the Gmail settings but found nothing. I know you can clear items individually from ...
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On Instagram, is it possible to improve its suggested posts?
Say that I've only "liked" posts that are pictures of miniatures (or cats, or whatever). When I click Explore, the suggested posts are often landscapes and other stuff that I don't care ...
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Searching Twitter retweets
How do I search for retweets on Twitter without the 7days limits? I have tried from:someone filter:nativeretweets but it had a limits of 7days retweets while I'm interested in longer duration retweets
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How can I list all the direct message groups where myself and a given user belong to in Slack?
I want to list the direct message groups where at least myself and another user belong to in Slack. How can I achieve that?
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Help about 4shared's search
My question is about 4shared. I'm looking for a way to find videos, which are not listed, but which, however, are available and visible, and this for all, because they are public videos.
Could someone ...
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Search for special characters, SymbolHound.com is down, alternative [closed]
Do you know pages similar to SymbolHound.com which contain the use of special characters searches? Some alternatives and why this site stopped working? Google cannot cope with searching for phrases ...
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github code search based on specific repo state (commit, tag, release)
Is it possible to use the github api to achieve code searches for a specific repo state (commit, tag, or release)? I can't find these kinds of parameters in the code search documentation.
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Searching through the draw.io map in "Read-only" mode throws "Error" - "v is undefined"
I need to find an item "xyz" in a big technical map. At least the search done by the Ctrl+F "Find" box does not work:
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v is undefined
I am in the "Read-only" mode, ...
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How to search a range for a matching word within a string?
What I'm trying to do is this:
Cell A1 contains a sentence. The dog had black spots all over
Column B contains a range of keywords. Let's say B7 contains dog.
What would be the formula to get C1 to ...
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Google Maps: Searching Moves View to Current Location
I frequently use google maps to plan trips. My workflow is to move the view around to look for interesting looking locations and then search to see if there are restaurants, sites... near by. However ...
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How can I filter for only emails sent by me with no recipients except myself in a gmail search if I also have myself autoBCCD on ALLof my sent emails?
This has been a bit of a doosy for me. I have my IOS devices set to auto-bcc myself on all of my sent emails so they populate in my inbox. Because of this, I began using the subject line of my emails ...
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What is the search syntax for Qwant.com
Google Search has some nice syntax such as -keyword to remove results matching keyword, "exact phrase" to restrict results to contain the exact phrase or "required" to exclude ...
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How can I create a search box that only searches within a table in a wiki page in Confluence?
I have very long table with 2 columns:
Column A
Column B
Word 1
Blahblah 1
Word 2
Blahblah 2
Word 3
Blahblah 3
Word 4
Blahblah 4
I'd like to hide it and instead ask the user to type a word in a ...
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Using Twitter advanced search to find retweets more than a year old
I'm trying to find retweets from a certain account using filter:nativeretweets for a specific time span; using the commands until: and since:.
However it looks like this command won't work for ...
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Finding all pages under a given website [duplicate]
For a given website, I'm looking to find all pages under that website. For example, given "maryland.gov", I'm effectively looking for everything of the form "*.maryland.gov/*" (...
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How to exclude all terms except one word in title when searching YouTube or Google?
That is, how to find one-word-titled webpages in Google search results or in YouTube search results. For example, when searching YouTube for the word ‘verb’, I want only videos with the word ‘verb’ as ...
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Is it possible to search for events shared in a Facebook group?
I haven't found any way to do so. Even searching for the word "event" in the group doesn't give me any results, saying "We didn't find anything in this group". The group definitely ...
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Archive.org search by Title, Date, FullText simultaneously
Is it possible to search books satisfying 1),2),3) simultaneously in Archive.org ?
1) title contains food
2) added date is from 2015-01-01 to 2015-12-31
3) contents(=full text) of the book contains ...
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Search only headers and/or only in outline of Google Docs
I have a Google Doc with a large outline to move through the doc:
If you have more than 100 headers, it is hard to find a header with a word like "MySQL" if that word pops up every now and ...
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Search websites whose urls contain a specific word
I'm wondering if it's possible to search all the websites whose url contains a specific word.
Example: I'd like to search all the websites with the word ".uni??" in their url ("?" ...
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Is it possible to filter emails from addresses starting with something?
I deal with a public institution that sends emails from a variety of addresses such as portaligi1001@gmail.com, portaligi1002@gmail.com, etc. To my absolute dismay, when I type portaligi in my Gmail, ...
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Gmail Label Search for Parent Label (including all its children)
GMail has some great features, one of which is label tagging to organize your inbox. However, I have a situation where I stuff all "waste of time" emails that sometimes I peruse into the ...
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How to search twitter by location?
How do I search for Tweets sent from a Location?
Twitter help says there's a Place tab in Advanced Search. But there is none.
I've tried Place:$place and Location:location but that is a plain text ...
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Search within a category page on a MediaWiki site
I'm trying to search for text on a category page of a MediaWiki website. But the search seems to only work on article pages. How can I also search on category (or all) pages on a MediaWiki website?
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Search a Column of Data & Enter a Specific Value based on 2 criteria
I have a sheet, where I will enter a bunch of data with skus into 1 column, and have search terms somewhere else. What I want is to automatically, look at the SKU AND the search term, and then bring ...
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How to search Gmail for emails based on number of recipients
I've been given the task of searching our company emails for emails that were sent to 10+ recipients, to check for accidentally included mailing lists.
I've checked all the documentation I can find ...
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Someone famous retweeted me couple of years ago, how do I find it through advanced twitter search?
On Twitter, @Someone famous retweeted me some couple of years ago. I did not care for it then, but now I want to find it.
I tried things like from:@famousguy filter:nativeretweets [@me]
which did not ...
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Filter out chats in Gmail without "Don't include chats" option
Previously, in Gmail advanced search and when creating filters there was a checkbox called Don't include chats. But it's not there anymore. And now I'm getting chats in my Gmail inbox because of the ...
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Search non-direct messages in slack
In slack, can I search messages in public/private channels only? I would like to exclude direct messages to me from the search because I know I have already read them. I am interested in finding ...
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How can I combine two search operators in the Microsoft Outlook web interface?
Blank space doesn't seem to work. E.g. when I use size:large hasattachment:true I see no results, Whereas both size:large and hasattachment:true used alone return results that are similar (i.e., I see ...
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How to search for hyphen- oder underscore-separated words in Google Drive?
For better compatibility, my filenames don't contain spaces. However Google Drive does not seem to support partial searching expect when separated by spaces.
For example, if my filename is "...
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How to search multiple names if present in a website?
I was thinking if there is any way search in Google or other way to see multiple names or title if present in a website (although different web pages) and show list of pages found with targeted names? ...
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Bulk Search Or Find a bunch of values at once
I have a list of order numbers that I get from one sheet & cross check whether they are there in another sheet (they shouldn't be, they would be the orders that we don't need so we delete them ...
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How can view the list of emails from the specific sender containing attachments with a specific file type in Outlook?
I use the Microsoft Outlook web interface. I tried the following, however it returns emails containing attachments with a different file type, because *.xlsx doesn't only apply to attachment.
Using ...
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How to view all the matching paragraphs in the web page in the search engine?
Not all search tasks are easy, sometimes several keywords need to be used to describe, and many web pages are very long, so many times there is no desired content in the title and abstract, so you ...
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YouTube videos from verified channels only
I would imagine for many YouTube users like me, it is a common nuisance to sift through YouTube's vast content to find the videos uploaded by verified sources (channels). I wonder if there is a way to ...
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How can I search YouTube including description and sort by date?
When I search YouTube normally, it finds matches including in video descriptions. But if I sort the results by upload date, then most of the videos are removed from the search, and it seems to only ...
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How can you search meta-data tags in Media Wiki / Wikipedia?
I'm not sure if meta-data tags / name-value pairs is what I'm referring to or not, but I'd like to be able to search Wikipedia's sidebar tags such as the ones displayed in the screenshot below:
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