Questions tagged [search]
Ways and methods to look up data and information from a service, index or some other collection of information
66
questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
5
votes
0
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 51
5
votes
0
answers
54
views
Searching for Chinese words in Wikka wiki
I am a user of Wikka wiki and I have a problem of searching Chinese words. The problem is that there is are spaces between Chinese words. Therefore, the entire title of a page is taken as a single ...
- 51
4
votes
0
answers
75
views
How can I search my Google Drive AND Google Keep?
I'm considering using Google Keep but wondering if it just becomes another deep box to search for stuff in.
Can I search my Google Drive and Google Keep from one search tool?
- 3,041
4
votes
1
answer
6k
views
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 ...
- 593
3
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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 ...
- 31
3
votes
0
answers
167
views
Swedish keyboard shortcut for Search field in Google Drive
The keyboard shortcut that takes you to the Search field on the Google Drive main view does not work on a Swedish keyboard. On an English keyboard the shortcut is / but pressing Shift+7 on a Swedish ...
- 201
3
votes
0
answers
3k
views
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 ...
- 1,395
2
votes
1
answer
384
views
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 ...
- 173
2
votes
0
answers
16
views
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 ...
- 131
2
votes
1
answer
222
views
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 ...
- 21
2
votes
0
answers
116
views
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 ...
- 250
2
votes
0
answers
166
views
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 ...
- 173
2
votes
1
answer
120
views
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 ...
- 21
2
votes
0
answers
41
views
Finding non-monetised YouTube videos
Is there any way to find YouTube videos which do not (currently) contain overlay or video advertising - that is, non-monetised videos?
The only way I have found is to play the video to see if an ...
- 141
2
votes
0
answers
490
views
How to find a specific tweet in its context?
Via a direct link I found this tweet dated 14 Dec 2010. Now I wanted to see the tweets this user sent just before and after this specific message so I made an advanced search:
https://twitter.com/...
- 661
2
votes
0
answers
54
views
How do I limit my search results to tracks uploaded by specific users?
Sometimes I want to limit my search results to tracks uploaded by specific users. How can I search specific user's accounts for titles and hashtags?
2
votes
0
answers
66
views
Use SoundCloud's search page without a query
I'm using SoundCloud to download music that can be played in a commercial setting. For that, I'm searching with the filter license=to_use_commercially (and also duration=medium). I don't have any ...
- 282
2
votes
0
answers
411
views
How to search for the latest video of a certain duration from a particular YouTube channel
I watch documentaries regularly and usually visit Vice and BBC News channels in YouTube. I always look for the latest documentaries/news with a duration of more than 20 minutes. My question is: how ...
- 121
2
votes
0
answers
46
views
Twitter Search Operators for a particular word AND others
I have read the Twitter search operators guidance: https://twitter.com/search-home#
but it's not clear whether you can search for a particular word plus other possible words like in the following ...
- 51
2
votes
0
answers
588
views
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 ...
- 21
2
votes
0
answers
55
views
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 ...
- 495
1
vote
0
answers
36
views
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 ...
1
vote
0
answers
16
views
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 ...
- 111
1
vote
0
answers
18
views
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 ...
- 111
1
vote
1
answer
214
views
How Do I Combine Gmail Search Operators?
I was attempting to create a filter which would delete all emails alerting me that a website updated its terms or privacy policy.
This is the search filter I'm trying to use to accomplish that
+...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
49
views
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 ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
245
views
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 ...
- 111
1
vote
0
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 1,830
1
vote
0
answers
127
views
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. ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
231
views
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?
- 5,923
1
vote
1
answer
51
views
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 ...
- 11
1
vote
1
answer
2k
views
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.
...
- 111
1
vote
0
answers
145
views
How to search for "X Y" words in Google Web Search while exculding pages that have X and no Y after it
I want to use Google Web Search to do a web search like this:
Find pages that contain the phrase "red car" while excluding the pages that have the word "red" and no "car" after it. If we just entered "...
- 111
1
vote
0
answers
57
views
Follow users by criteria on Twitter
Keeping in mind Twitter's Following rules and best practices, I've tried Crowdfire's Keyword follow and I find it very powerful because:
I can easily list many users whose profile or tweets match a ...
- 687
1
vote
0
answers
43
views
Is there a way to filter and see all the videos I shared on my Facebook profile?
I want to see only the videos I shared on my profile by filtering it. I thought it can be done in activity log, since you can search your posts, but a lot of videos I shared in groups and pages show ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
120
views
Combination of quotations and OR do not work in Bing Search
To proceed on the question posted here: Quotation marks do not work in Bing?
I want to make a combined search for two variations of the same sentence.
It could be for instance:
Query: "moscow is a ...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
127
views
YouTube Search Feature Alternative
YouTube's Advanced Search appears to not be working properly, as I want to do the follow:
Search within X Channel
With the search results:
Related to a,b,c,d keywords
Return from newest to oldest
...
- 119
1
vote
0
answers
127
views
Cannot find own outgoing Hangouts chat messages in history via Gmail search
I have failed to find any of my very own outgoing Hangouts chat messages in history via Gmail search, whereas the search finds any of Hangouts chat messages of another participant of the very same ...
1
vote
0
answers
290
views
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 ...
- 336
1
vote
0
answers
214
views
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?...
- 11
1
vote
0
answers
904
views
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 ...
- 111
1
vote
1
answer
1k
views
How can I search WordPress comments?
I can easily search a WordPress.com hosted blog by doing the following (on DDG):
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Ahttps%3A%2F%2Ff1metrics.wordpress.com%2F%20some%20search%20term
But how can I limit ...
- 199
0
votes
0
answers
32
views
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)
...
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
28
views
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 ...
- 577
0
votes
0
answers
36
views
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/...
- 51
0
votes
0
answers
18
views
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 ...
- 317
0
votes
0
answers
8
views
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 ...
- 101
0
votes
0
answers
25
views
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
- 1
0
votes
0
answers
41
views
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 ...
0
votes
0
answers
162
views
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 ...
