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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Data row lookup in separate big data sheet and placing it inside another sheet in Google spreadsheet
I would like to make a Google spreadshit for calorie tracking. In my head I imagine it as I would like to have a sheet where I will record daily food activity. And another DB sheet with all time ...
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How to set Stitcher as the default podcast client for Alexa?
Using the web interface for Alexa, I'm only seeing an option to set the default music player.
How do I set the default podcast player to stitcher?
The default podcast client is TuneIn, which, at ...
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Gmail : exclude conversation view while searching
is there any view to display results by excluding the conversation view while searching.
When i search through large volumes of emails, AND if Conversation view is turned ON, several emails are ...
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can anyone translate this? [closed]
Item is very old and after searching online i can not figure out what this says or find a meaning.
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Why did my Google search results suddenly change to have boxes around them?
Boxes around my Google search results only appear when I'm logged into my Google account. They appear regardless of my browser and I can't figure out how to get rid of them
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How to make Youtube History search engine act as if I have typed in my search into the search history field?
I'm trying to configure a Search Engine in Google Chrome on Windows 10 defined thusly:
But it does not work the way it should, and forces me to copy/paste my search again into the search field to the ...
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Find-Replace with discontinous ranges
I am editing a Google Sheet with multiple peers. I need to do a Find-Replace on just my rows, say, rows 1:38 and 197:222. (Not permitted to sort the data.) I see many examples on the web of doing this ...
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Google search date from or date after?
I would like to return results only before or after a certain date.
I read here that it's simply to use before:YYYY-MM-DD
But when I try, e.g. corona before:2020-02-30, I see most results are from ...
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How to activate keyword highlighting in search results of DuckDuckGo?
Is it possible to have the query words highlighted in the search results of DuckDuckGo? I really like the Google layout, which displays text passages with query word in bold fonts. Does DDG have a ...
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Twitter: copy and paste complete search results
Since some time ago I would do a twitter search and than copy and paste the whole result to some text file. (Using Crtl-A or selecting the results manually.)
This doesn't work any longer. It seems ...
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Where can I see all my comments on commit on GitHub?
Where can I see all my comments on commit on GitHub?
I tried commenter:username (in my case commenter:Franck Dernoncourt) but it doesn't seem to show my comments on commit.
For example, this comment ...
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Can I search for the # of times a certain word has been used?
Is it possible to get just the # of times a certain word has appeared in Tweets rather than seeing each and every tweet it was used?
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Add to Managed File Types in Sharepoint Online
This documentation specifies the file types that are crawled during search indexing.
I have some other plain acsii text files with extensions not matching any of the defaults.
When searching for ...
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How can I search the comments on Instagram?
I'm looking for something akin to https://www.youtubextras.com/ but for Instagram feeds. I want to search the comments in all of the threads posted by a specific user.
I know there is a phrase ...
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Search for torrents which contain a particular filename
From what I've seen, almost all torrent search sites only allow searching the torrent filename.
I want to:
Find which torrents include a file with a particular filename.
Search for text inside the ...
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How to find any string in code in GitHub repository?
I feel like this is one of those things I must be staring right at, without seeing.
Using the GitHub web-app, how does one find all occurrences of a search string in the code, within a specific ...
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Is there a clever way to search YouTube comments of a specific video?
I found a service called Juphy which unfortunately did not work even though it said they offer searching through YouTube comments.
I thought of scrolling down until all comments are shown and then ...
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Count result list in Google Maps search
How can I get total number of found results in this search windows except scrolling all the pages till the end?
Is there any trick?
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Searching for all messages by user with Slack
Using Slack I'm attempting to find all messages by user but following is returned :
I've tried search terms :
in:@username
and
all:@username
But same search result.
How to find all messages in ...
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How to automatically search a website and provide alerts
I am looking for a way to automatically and periodically search websites and to receive an alert when new content is available.
I am referring to something more complex than what Google Alerts can ...
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In Google Sheets I need to find a string and return true/false, or even a count into a cell so I can perform an action
In my example i have a column with Names of signs we product in our sighshop and I need to be able to isolate similar named signs So say I need to return a a value if the cell is Bud Light and only ...
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Youtube search keyword grouping
I tried to search YouTube with more than 4 keywords, but I think it limits the search within adjacent permutation subgroups within those keywords.
Say I search for keyword1 keyword2 keyword3 keyword4 ...
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Determining what type of search result is returned by Wikipedia
When you send a search to Wikipedia using the:
http://www.wikipedia.org/search-redirect.php?search=George Washington
URL, it seems like this function returns 3 different manifestations of Wikipedia ...
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How to use QUERY to show data in Google Sheet using tags
I have a Google Sheet with 2 sheets. In sheet 01 I have this table.
In sheet 02 I want to have a "Search by Tag" sheet. So, googling I got this formula
=QUERY('01'!A2:D4, "select B,C,D where A = '...
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Is it possible to get SMS texts for tweets from a specific user that match certain words?
I know that you can send an SMS text from Twitter for all tweets that you get from a specific user. But is it possible to only send texts when a tweet is from a specific user and that also match ...
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Entire Column green if all cells in it are empty
I would like all columns that only contain empty cells to light up green.
In the below picture these should be: C3:C8, D3:D8, E3:E8, L3:L8
What would be the correct custom formula for this?
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How to search a YouTube channel's videos by duration
I'm trying really hard to find a specific video on a YouTube channel that has nearly 1000 videos. The channel has a lot of short videos (<10 minutes), but the video I'm looking for was at least 20 ...
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How to search Google Groups for keywords
I went to https://groups.google.com and searched for boot ring seat, looking for a specific Usenet message that I know has those three words in it. No results. All right, I thought, maybe I'm ...
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How can I list all cards I am watching in Trello?
How could I list all watched cards (or as a further refinement all watched cards I am not working on)?
I couldn't see anything immediately on the pages regarding watching, filtering or searching.
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Is there a way to highlight specific words in search results?
Is there a way to highlight particular words in cells that I enter into the search window? Sometimes, working with a huge text we need to find only several words among long text and we have to read ...
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How can I search for 'new' items ONLY in Amazon.ca?
I was trying to find a 'new' laptop in Amazon and failed.
It is showing a lot of search results which includes 'old' and 'refurbished' items as well.
I scrolled through 5 or 6 pages, almost all ...
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Code (in google sheet) to search text in Google Docs or PDF's or Google sheet
From GoogleSheet I would like to search text if it exists in docs, pdf files with matching file names (or fileID). Is there a way to do that? I am somewhat familiar with Scripting in googlesheet ...
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Changed Twitter username. Still showing in Twitter searches
If my Twitter handle were @johnsmith, and I were to change it to @johndoe, I'd expect that searches in the Twitter search input for the old username would now show no connection to the new name.
On ...
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How can I find pictures in Google Photos in which multiple people that I specify appear together?
I know how to use Google Photos to find pictures which have a given person in them, for example showing pictures of "Christopher" or "Michael".
How can I find pictures in Google Photos in which ...
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What is the best way to search a video with specific song in it on youtube?
Under any Youtube video there is a description of music/songs under it. What is the best way to search a Youtube video based on that song? I can search it by the name of that song in Google search but ...
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Creating a twitter search link that references the user that clicked on said link
I was wondering if its possible to make a link of the formhttps://twitter.com/search?q=itunes.apple%20from%3A&src=typd
where the search is performed on the whoever is logged in when it is clicked. ...
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How can I make google give me only top-level page results?
I would like to do a keyword search but with only top-level pages as result.
For example, I want https://superuser.com as a hit but not https://superuser.com/questions/230975/ on my search.
Only ...
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Is there a way to pull or search for data from other sheets? [duplicate]
We use Google Sheets for tech commission sheets (track jobs and hours). Right now we have 2 years (2017&2018) in 1 set of sheets, 1 sheet for each month (jan 17, feb 17, etc). So instead of adding ...
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How can you find or highlight all cells having validation in Google Sheets?
My spreadsheet has several cells that have had validation applied to them, but it would be nice to recheck them or switch the validation to a complimentary cell. After searching on Google and looking ...
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Search engine for everything illegal, weird, immoral, anti-social and/or anti-government
I have been a Google user since time immemorial. However, recently, Google seems to filtering results based on its version of acceptable behaviour.
For example, I want to be able to search for these ...
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Where to find a list of Google search operators?
I heard once that there are some search keywords or operators that google could use to enhance the search results. One of them was "NEAR"...
Say if I search
"make" NEAR "great again"
it would ...
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How to limit Team Drive search to a single team drive?
I'm trying to search for files with a particular term in a single specific team drive. But when I search, I get hundreds of results across 15 different team drives, most of which aren't the one I am ...
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Number of YouTube search results not showing
When I search on YouTube and press enter the number of results not showing!!! Why??
I want to show results like this picture
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How to search Gmail conversations that do not have certain people replied
I need to find open conversations sent to help@company.com that do not have received a reply from csr@company.com yet.
to:help@company.com -"csr@company.com"
queries like the above fetches ...
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Search label by first characters on GitHub
I'm on GitHub. I can search like this:
https://github.com/jenstornell/kirby-plugins/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22Type%3A+Plugin%22
The query looks like this:
is:issue is:open label:"...
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How do I download from Gutenberg by genre or subgenre?
For a project I'm working on, I need to access all the English fiction in Gutenberg, and then all the horror stories in English fiction on Gutenberg? I see how I download all the txt files in English. ...
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How to search Gmail to find conversations that are both in the Inbox AND have a specific Label?
How can I search Gmail so I view and only view all conversations that are both:
in the Inbox (e.g. not Archived), AND
have a specific Label
?
If I look at my Gmail inbox now and see a total of 160 ...
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How to search through Amazon Customer Questions?
An Amazon product has 787 questions and I can access them using the buttons:
How do I do a keyword search?
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Use Google Scholar for searching words appeared within Keywords
I have two words which are "team" and "conflict".
I want to search for all the papers that have these two words in their "Keywords List".
Note that the Keywords mean not the general keywords related ...
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Search results for Kindle Unlimited?
On my Kindle device I can filter search results to "Kindle Unlimited" only. I thought that I'd seen a similar option on the web interface through the Amazon website to search Kindle books, but see no ...
