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 in all GitHub repositories for files with a specific name
Is there a way to search for all files with a certain name in all repositories on GitHub?
I've seen the advanced search form, but I can't see anything in there.
If there isn't anything on the GitHub ...
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How do I find a contact in my Google Contacts list?
Whenever I type in a name I want to search for, which exists in my list of Google Contacts, it pulls up a blank card or tells me that no match exists, or nothing has been found.
Any ideas why that ...
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How do I search for web pages that include a JavaScript file with a certain name?
I wrote an open source JavaScript library called ObjectId.js. I'd like to know who is using it. I assume most people (if anyone is using it) are including a local copy of ObjectId.js in their web ...
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How to remove spammy search results from Google [duplicate]
Often, when I search for something, I get results like www.<site>.com/Search/<my search terms>, which are nothing but the exact same search repeated on www.<site>.com and are of no ...
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Google Drive search function not searching correctly within documents
I have a folder in my Google Drive with just one document called "links". This document contains just the following text:
java 5 enums enumerations full version
When I type "enunms" [sic] in the ...
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Search YouTube and exclude certain terms from the video's title?
How can I search YouTube and exclude certain terms from the video's title? For instance, I want to search for "glass" but exclude videos with "Google" in the title.
I'd like to stress that I want to ...
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DuckDuckGo: Exact string search within a domain
I searched DuckDuckGo for site:wikipedia.org "advisary", hoping to spot some typos.
To my surprise, DuckDuckGo replied with articles that do not contain the word "advisary", even thought I took the ...
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Search for a specific word in all tweets for a given Twitter account
Given a particular Twitter profile, that contains tens of thousands of tweets, what is the best approach for:
a) downloading the text (with date) of all tweets
and/or
b) search for a specific word ...
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How can I search Gmail for a Windows activation key?
Somewhere lost in my Gmail is a Windows key. It's by itself in an email but I cannot find it. It's formatted like so:
XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX-XXXXX
If Gmail supported regular expressions it would be ...
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How can I search for Gmail messages on a particular date?
I'm searching for a message on or about a particular date and rather than scrolling through my emails to go back about a year, I'd like to know a search method to only find emails from a particular ...
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Wikipedia global search (all languages), without using a third-party search engine?
Performing a search on the Japanese Wikipedia is easy:
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Search?search=%s
Now, I want to perform a search on all language versions of Wikipedia.
For instance ...
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Is it possible to include wiki markup in MediaWiki searches?
I tried to find improperly formatted URLs on Wikipedia by entering for a search query with wiki markup, but this doesn't return matches of this markup in Wikipedia. Does Wikipedia have any search ...
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Facebook `find friend box` visibility
The box is sometimes visible for a friend, as snapshot #1 & #2, and sometimes not visible for another friend, as snapshot #3. I don't know why.
Why is that?
"Search your friend" box is visible
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How to search for Metro-UI Windows 8 apps' repositories in Sourceforge?
When I searched in GitHub/Bitbucket everything was okay because of the repositories' names (and probably because of different search engines), but on this site it just lists the apps' names and it ...
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Is it possible to search over multiple Google Forums from one search box?
I've embedded several Google forums in our website, found at: http://appinventor.mit.edu/explore/forums.html, following the general guidelines found at:
http://support.google.com/groups/bin/answer.py?...
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How to use Google Scholar to search key words in abstracts
I've noticed that I can search in Google Scholar for keywords in the titles or in the full paper content, but not in the "abstract only".
Is there a workaround for doing that?
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How to use Facebook’s new search graph to find posts with specific words
I want to query the new search graph to find all of my friends’ posts which contain some word, say Vacation in Italy.
How can I do it?
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Is there a workaround for Google Bookmark search problems?
I'm not sure if anyone else has come across this, but I'm getting incomplete results when searching my Google Bookmarks (not Chrome bookmarks). I have a link with the title including "headlights" ...
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Can I search a site for bad language?
I'm looking into some online tutorials that I would like to use in teaching kids to program. The author of some of these tutorials enjoys bad language, based on his twitter account.
It would help me ...
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Is it possible to associate equations with theorems?
Suppose I wanted to find out about the Pythagorean Theorem by searching via WolframAlpha. This is trivial -- we can search directly for Pythagorean Theorem and get a wealth of information.
But ...
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How to search for a question mark in Twitter
I have been searching for an hour trying to figure out how to use the question mark in a search, basically I'm looking for the string ?tag (as in the Amazon Affiliates Tag Link) I'm basically trying ...
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Outlook Web App gives incomplete result with the search function
I noticed recently that the searches I perform in my Outlook Web Application (Exchange 2010) are not correct.
Example:
If I perform a search of a recent email (less than 2 months for example) the ...
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How do I search for posts by date in Facebook Groups?
I'm trying to find the oldest post in a FB group.
Is there a way to do this short of scrolling down to the very first post?
It's rather impractical in my case, the group has thousands of post as of ...
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Filtering issues without certain tag on GitHub
Does the current GitHub issue search engine provide any way for users to search for reports without certain tag?
Classical use-case would be having a granular grouping such as [bug], [enhancement], [...
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Possible to specify multiple sites to search using Bing?
If I want to search the site mysite.com on Bing, I can type:
my search terms site:mysite.com
Is there a way to specify multiple sites to search? I've tried:
my search terms site:mysite.com,...
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Searching for populations of a list of cities
I want to create a list of all world cities named "Alexandria", along with their populations. Can a search engine do that? What could the query look like?
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Find photo info page for Flickr profile image
Given a Flickr static image (like http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8283/7753425102_02f23b5a21.jpg), I know how to find the info page for that image (http://www.flickr.com/photos/75151585@N07/7753425102/),...
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How can I find a message by Message-ID in Gmail?
For archival purposes, I am storing a list of emails. I would like to be able to later find a particular message in my Gmail account. A unique message identifier is its Message-ID. However Gmail does ...
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Determine Last Modified Date of a card in Trello
In Trello, is there a search term possible for determining the last modified date of a card?
I was hoping to be able to search for similar to:
is:archived last_modified:2
to find cards which are ...
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Searching Gmail for conversations created by some email
I know I can search Gmail using from:email (and many other helpful similar searches) but this will return all the conversations where email is the sender of one of the messages in the conversation.
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How to search for '{search text}' on Google [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to search the internet for terms with special characters
I have been trying to do a literal search in Google for text exactly like:
{example}
I have tried all sorts of ...
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Google Maps latitude and longitude search without markers
When I search a latitude and longitude in Google Maps like:
https://maps.google.com/maps?q=-25.454435,-49.33136
It always return me the locations nearby with those ["A", "B", ... ] pins:
Is there ...
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How to find comments addressed to a person ("@")?
In www.trello.com one may address a card comment to a user using @name.
How may I search for comments addressed that way (i.e. comments addressed to me for example)?
If one searches for @name one ...
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How can I create a filter for large attachments in Gmail? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I sort emails in GMail by size?
In Gmail, how can I create a filter that will forward messages with an attachments larger than say 10MB to another account?
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Why Searching Gmail Doesn't Return Results If Searched Not From Beginning?
For example, when searching with "quest" for content containing word "questions" starting from beginning of word, Gmail returns result:
However if searching with "est", no results are being returned.
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Improve mediawiki search by using Solr or similar? [closed]
Search on our internally hosted mediawiki installation is very poor. Has anyone found an easy way to get better search capabilities, like Solr integration or some internal spidering system?
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Choose which address of a gmail contact populates the 'To' field
I have a question similar to this one but slightly different.
Some of my contacts have two mail address, an old one I shouldn't write to if I expect an answer and a new one.
Now, I do not wish to ...
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On OkCupid, how can I search through questions I haven't answered?
I sometimes use OkCupid, a dating/friend-finding site. It works by matching up users based on their answers to a series of questions. But when I search through the set of available questions, the site ...
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How can I filter Twitter posts without links?
I was trying to search for Tweets via Twitter's search site: http://twitter.com/search
Well if you use a keyword called filter:links in your search text box you get all posts which have links. Its ...
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How can I get OkCupid search to show only matches within 5 miles of me?
Researchers have found that friendships are more likely to last if both friends live near each other.[citation needed]
I'm using OkCupid, a free online-dating and friend-matching site. When I search ...
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Commands to search for YouTube videos via the search bar
If I enter title:"This Hard Land" -title:"Cover" in the YouTube search bar, I only get videos which contain This Hard Land and do not contain Cover in their titles.
I'd also like to add a command ...
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Finding the most popular/active sites based on a topic [closed]
What's the best way to find the top sites based on a certain topic/category/interest? For example if I want to find the top few Apple sites that contain news/articles/reviews etc, can I find these in ...
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Search by thread rather than email in Gmail
Gmail seems to have a flaw insofar as it acts as though tags apply only to the first email in a thread rather than to the whole thread (or to all emails in a thread).
This means that if I send an ...
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How do I search for old items I posted in my own Facebook timeline? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Better way to search the Facebook activity log / timeline?
I was just trying to look up something on my own timeline (specifically, the last time I had jury duty). ...
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In Twitter, how can I search the hash tags related to a particular region?
In Twitter, how can I search the hash tags related to a particular region?
Like #trends in New York.
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Search within a category on a MediaWiki site
I'm trying to search for a keyword within a specific category on Wikimedia Commons. For example, like to search for "red flowers" within "Category:Flowers" so that I can categorize the images ...
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Why might Pinterest not show a pin in a search?
A friend of mine promotes his website by pinning pictures of his work on Pinterest. When searching the exact description, they don't show up. At all. Why might this be, and how could I go about fixing ...
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In GMail, is there any way to search for "long" emails that I have written?
Over the years, I've written a number of long emails to folks in GMail, and in some of them I think there were some interesting ideas I'd like to go back and look at and possibly do something with.
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Keyword Search for a comment in group wall
How do I search for a comment I made on a Facebook group wall post a long time ago?
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Search only subscribed channels in YouTube
Is it possible to search for a video in YouTube only in the channels one has subscribed (and not in all possible channels)?
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