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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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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How to search for shared albums
I have hundreds of Google Photos shared albums. How can I search for them?
I remember some words of the title, but it seems that the only option is to browse through hundreds and hundreds of albums to ...
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How can I search for a string across all comments in a PDF on Acrobat Web?
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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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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Searching within Gmail's nested labels
Consider this setup in my Gmail inbox where I have 3 lists:
mailing-lists/first-list
mailing-lists/second-list
mailing-lists/third-list
If I want to search for all unread messages in any sub-label ...
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Finding the cheapest available accommodation in Google Maps
I am doing a long-distance walk to the Caspian Sea, and I'm trying to do it cheaply. (I do a mixture of wild camping, cheap hotels, campsites, hostels, apartments, Airbnbs, Couchsurfing, and ...
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How to search for exact matches of single-word video titles?
I would like to search for videos on YouTube whose title matches a single-word query.
For example, if I search for titles containing the word "verb", I only want YouTube to return results ...
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How can I make my Gmail searches faster? [closed]
When I first signed up with Gmail, I was impressed by how fast I could search through my email. Now even simple single-keyword searches can take 5-10 seconds. Perhaps this is related to having over 70,...
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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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Are there any similar sites to code.gouv.fr with a search engine that supports tags? [closed]
I am looking for a tool similar to code.gouv.fr that allows users to find repositories via a search engine that works with tags.
code.gouv.fr will only return an answer if the exact description as ...
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Search public images in Google Photos
On Picasa Web Album, I can search all public photos via the explore features, for instance a search by tag: https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/view?feat=tags&psc=G&filter=0&tags=wikimania
(...
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How to view all the matching paragraphs in the web page in the search engine? [closed]
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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How do I specify a filetype in a Google search? [duplicate]
Is there a syntax to specify a filetype in a Google search? What is it? (I'm looking for PDFs.)
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How do I find a page with two specific links on it? [closed]
I used to be able to do this in Google, but with the increasing dumbing down of Google this feature no longer works. e.g. I want science related news so I use Google:
+link:www.physorg.com +link:...
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How to search for links on one web site to another
Is there a way, to use Google Search to search for all links to a particular website on a different website. For example, could I search for all links to Wikipedia on this site (webapps.stackexchange....
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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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How do I find on the Internet hits for a word with a dash in the middle? [duplicate]
Background: I tried to find information about the tool python-config, but a Google search brought up mainly hits for python's config module.
Digging a bit deeper, the issue is that Google treats the ...
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How can I search Google for number ranges that use the M and K number abbreviation?
My goal is to search Google for instagram profiles that have a certain amount of followers. Filtering down to profiles only is easy but the hard part is making google understand the number ...
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How to clear search history at Hotmail?
I have an email account on hotmail.com. I have searched a few words, using the left search bar, to find something in my emails. However, when I click on the search bar now, I still see those words, ...
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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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How to get around Twitter blocking text search within page ("find in page")
(for the Twitter website on a computer - not app or mobile)
If you use your browser's search function ("find in page") to search for a word on a page on Twitter that you are looking at, it ...
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How can I view or search across all the group direct messages sent by Bob to groups where Alice is present in Slack?
I use https://slack.com/. I have group messages between the following groups (I am also a member of each of these groups):
Alice, Bob
Alice, Bob, Charlie
Bob, Charlie
Alice, Bob, Charlie, David
Bob, ...
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How to find a specific Trello card by card id or date
Our Trello board currently has about 500 cards on it. We can easily search by card number if it's three digits long, e.g. 123, but searching for two digit card numbers also returns three digit card ...
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Is there a way to search through liked videos on my YouTube account? [closed]
Is there a way to search for specific videos in my like playlist on my account?
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How to search with boolean operators on GitHub?
GitHub has a search system, building on elastic search that has many advanced features like searching for repositories or users. Using Google, I can search GitHub for alternatives. The search syntax ...
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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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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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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 you now search within YouTube channels?
There used to be a search icon when accessing the videos of a channel which would allow to search for videos only in that channel:
Since the interface redesign this doesn't seem to be there any more.
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Does Facebook sometimes block the ability to search for private messages?
It seems Facebook completely dropped my support (but not for other people I know) for searching for messages. I can only look for conversation names (persons, pages or chat group names) or search for ...
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Is there any way to filter YouTube videos by language?
Videos in search results on YouTube are often in languages different than the ones I speak and so, useless to me.
Is it possible to either make them not appear to me at all (e.g. by some account ...
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How to search for all outbound links of a particular website?
I want to search for all outgoing links with the URL https://github.com from this link https://whatevery1says.github.io/we1s-templates/creating-a-project/. I can do that with Outbound Links Checker ...
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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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Search an entire Google Sheet for a value and return true/false
I need to search every sheet in a Google sheet for a value - currency - and return true if it's found. The code below is returning false for everything
function searchForNumber(value) {
var sheet = ...
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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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How do I search the Wayback Machine for URLs on a website that contain a specific string?
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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In Yahoo Mail, how can I search through folders?
I have a folder with 1000s of emails. I'm looking for a particular email from 2011 I know is in this folder. When I try to search, Yahoo automatically redirects to my inbox, and searches the inbox.
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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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How to exclude archived items from search in Trello?
When I search in Trello, I usually want to exclude archived cards. But Trello seems to include them by default. I can manually add is:open to the search to exclude them. But how can I make this 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 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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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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Using quick-search with startpage.com?
Opera offers shorthands to use with web searches. Recently I discovered startpage.com and would like to make use of it with the shorthands I am used to, replacing Google.
From looking at the queries ...
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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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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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Can I make in-site search results on "New Google Sites" honor the web address mapping?
I am hosting a site using the New Google Sites, which has recently added a search functionality. I use web address mapping, so instead of https://sites.google.com/domain/site/page, I can direct my ...
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How to browse by category on Deviantart?
I can't find anything on the terrible new eclipse version of the website. I can't figure out how to search by category anymore. It used to be that you entered your search term and the categories were ...
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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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Is there a way to use the NOT operator on Amazon?
Is there a way to use the NOT operator on Amazon?
I'm trying to find books, and am finding it very frustrating to be unable to filter out books I don't want based on author or subject.
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