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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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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How to find similar video with better quality in YouTube?
Sometimes I watch a video on YouTube that has poor quality. I want to find a similar video which has better quality.
Is it possible in YouTube?
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Search for small, unknown, relevant websites [closed]
How can you search the internet for small, undiscovered, or unpopular websites that are relevant to your search query?
Google search results are flooded with major providers (not to mention bias) ...
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Use my photo for a search by image
How may I use a photo which is on my computer, for a search by image? I have already tried to upload it to my Google+ Unlimited account.
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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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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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Use Regular Expressions to Add Text to Beginning or End of Cells
I have a bunch of words in a sheet in one column, e.g.:
Study Guide 101
Meditation for Beginners Cheatsheet
Lose Weight Fast
What I want to do is add a word to the end of these in the cell using ...
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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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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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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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How to use the OR modifier with excluded terms in a phrase in a Craigslist search
How do you reformulate the following craigslist search to avoid repeating the word "no" twice (in order to comply with a word limit in searches).
-"no pets" -"no dogs"
I have tried the following:
-(...
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How can I provide search for a GitHub wiki hosted in a private (organizational) repo?
We have a lot of engineering documentation stored in a shared repository wiki. The repo itself, though, is private (i.e. part of an organization).
Although there is functionality in the wiki to ...
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How to search an old post in a Facebook page with hundreds of posts
I want to view a very old post in a Facebook page, e.g. this page, which contains hundreds to thousands of posts.
Browsing manually through the post stack of the page is so tiring and seems to be ...
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Default to All and hide retweets on Twitter search results
How can I default the sort of Twitter search results to show "All" instead of "Top" and have it exclude retweets?
On Twitter I don't follow anyone or post anything, I just use it to search to get ...
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Why is OkCupid showing me matches who live more than 5 kilometers away?
I'm using OkCupid, an online-dating and friend-matching site.
I have set the site to show only matches within 5 kilometers of me. Unfortunately, the site seems to be showing me lots of matches who ...
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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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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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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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In Trello, is there a way to search across all of an organization's boards?
"Search and Filter Cards" searches only the cards on the current board, as the name suggests. I would like to be able to search across all the boards of the organization, (subject to board membership ...
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How do I search for a group in Facebook?
I am new to Facebook, and I can't find the way to search for groups I might be interested in.
The search input text only returns Applications, Pages and People.
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Disable or remove YouTube movie recommendations
When I search for "movie 2010 trailers" to view trailers of movies that came out in 2010, I get flooded with recommendations to buy YouTube's movies and only 3 results are actual YouTube videos.
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Searching your old tweets in Twitter
My username is moo9000. But I cannot search my own tweets in twitter.com:
https://twitter.com/#!/search/realtime/%40moo9000
Also looks like searching other users has problems:
https://twitter.com/#!...
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How to make the chat search box in Gmail show mobile number or other details when viewing contacts profile?
To make phone calls (not using Google Voice/Softphone but normal phones) or see some other details like Company etc. of a person whose details are added in my Google Contacts, I generally use the chat ...
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Search engine uses wikipedia result as default?
I tried searching for what this is called but couldn't find a result.
So when searching for anything on a search engine it will give you a list of results but on the right-hand side a box will show ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 ...
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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/...
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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?
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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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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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Is there a way to find a site by an image they link to? [closed]
I have the URL for an image that I downloaded, and I'm trying to locate the site that linked to it.
E.g. http://12345.blob.windows.net/random/abc123.jpg
The image hosting site is windows.net.
Is ...
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Search messages in the (remote) past
I would like to search Twitter messages containing a given search term, but in the relatively distant past (one week), potentially with the specification of a timeframe where the search is performed.
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Order of operations when using <AND> and <OR > in a boolean search on Twitter
How does Twitter search interpret the order of boolean operators?
Does it support parentheses for clarifying the order of Boolean operators?
If one does a search like
A AND B OR C AND D
what does ...
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Searching a private Blogger blog
I have a private blog on Blogger, and I want to be able to search my posts, but when I try and do this, I get an error message saying 'The search feature is limited on this blog by owner's request'. ...
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Forcing search engine to display stock quote in Chrome
Is there a way (extension, tag) to input a stock ticker into the Google Chrome search bar and return the relevant yahoo finance/ google finance/bloomberg page for a stock?
Most of the time google is ...
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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
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b) search for a specific word ...
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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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Searching old news articles
Google News advanced search only lets me search news article by date from the last month.
Is there any similar site where I can search for news articles or trends by date for the last decade or so? I'...
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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 find a Facebook user
I can’t find a specific Facebook user (I searched his name) but if I log in with another Facebook account I can find this user.
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