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Is there a way to use the NOT operator on Amazon?
Unfortunately, Amazon does not regard the NOT operator anymore (negative keyword search).
Workaround: use Google Search with for example:
site:amazon.com lightbulbs -led
This will give you all ...
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How to search in a single channel?
Found the answer in the Slack docs.
The solution is to add the text in:someChannel or in:someUser to your search query.
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Is there a way to use the NOT operator on Amazon?
As of July 2015, at least there is no reliable way to use a NOT operator.
At least on Amazon.de searching for hard drive -usb will reduce the number of USB drives, but already the last result on the ...
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How to search with logic operators on GitHub?
The default search works as though there is an implied AND operator between each search key-value pair:
is:pr is:open author:monishdeb
If you specify more than one key-value pair for a key, it uses ...
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Accepted
Search by date in Google Inbox
I tested this in Inbox. The date needs to be in the correct order. Use before:YYYY/MM/DD as documented in the Advanced Search - Gmail help article.
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Is there a way to search through liked videos on my YouTube account?
For me I found that History page have search at the right:
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How to search with logic operators on GitHub?
GitHub's built in search covers the and, not, and or operators, as well as various other comparisons. GitHub's general guidelines on searching are located here: https://help.github.com/articles/...
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Is there a way to search through liked videos on my YouTube account?
If you have a user script manager like Greasemonkey installed, you can use the aptly named YouTube Playlist Search to search through your liked videos playlist.
Quickly search and filter through ...
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Search in all GitHub repositories for files with a specific name
the in:path kinda worked, but searching for
.travis.yml in:path
only returned about 6.8 million entries.
I was about to find 15 million using
filename:.travis.yml
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How can I search reminders in Google Inbox, but not search emails?
You can search only for reminders by adding the search operator "is:reminder" to your search.
keyword is:reminder
If you want only reminders that have not been marked done, add "in:inbox"
keyword ...
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How to search notes in Google Sheets?
Inspired from the accepted answer, here is the version if you want to find in notes in all sheets:
function searchNotes() {
var allSheets = SpreadsheetApp.getActive().getSheets();
var sheet = ...
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Search only through tweets of people I'm following
Currently for the browser version you need to add &pf=on (People you Follow) to the search string. E.g. searching 'something':
https://twitter.com/search?q=something&src=typed_query&pf=on
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How to search with logic operators on GitHub?
The default "Pull requests" search (https://github.com/pulls) seems to have an implicit AND between all search fields, but if you duplicate a field it ignores all but the last one. So this:
...
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How to search based on part of file name in Google Drive
The Original Poster is trying to find a string of text that appears in the middle of a string that contains no spaces. This cannot be done in drive without a custom script.
GDRive's file name search ...
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How to get a list of all .svg files on Wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org?
It seems you also asked this at the Wikipedia Help Desk (which, in my opinion, is really a better resource for Wikipedia questions).
The answer you got, which seems to suit your needs, was:
Over ...
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How to exclude archived items from search in Trello?
Unfortunately, there isn't a way currently to do this by default, but there's a relatively simple workaround.
If you have Trello Gold, you can save that search and open it anytime. Simply choose "...
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How can I search reminders in Google Inbox, but not search emails?
I couldn't get is:reminder -is:done to work.
So I used this, and it did what I wanted (all reminders not done, including reminders that aren't related to email):
is:reminder is:pinned
It renders ...
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Search label by first characters on GitHub
Unfortunately there is no wildcard search for labels on GitHub:
https://help.github.com/articles/searching-issues-and-pull-requests/#search-by-label
Additionally there is also unfortunately no way to ...
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Searching for all messages by user with Slack
I was able to find all messages by user by entering only from:@username into the search box.
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How to distinguish the two different kinds of football from Google results?
Go to https://www.google.co.uk and search for football. I get results only about soccer and not american football.
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In GMail, is there any way to search for "long" emails that I have written?
You can search for a message by size (as in file size). For instance, guessing an average word length of 4 characters, we can search for messages of 2000+ bytes (500+ words):
in:sent larger:2K
...
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Ctrl + F not working for browser page search when using Google Docs
Pressing F3 has the same result as pressing Ctrl+F in most browsers and this hotkey is not used in Google Docs.
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How can I search for Gmail messages on a particular date?
For emails on a particular date (e.g. on 12 July 2017) enter this in search box:
after:2017/7/12 before:2017/7/13
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How to get a list of all .svg files on Wikipedia.org and commons.wikimedia.org?
If you use the search query File: intitle:svg, you will get all files that have "svg" in their name. This will include files that do not have the .svg extension, but have svg in their name, but those ...
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How to find a Facebook user
Probably he has blocked you. So you are not able to find him, but from another account or any other account which is not blocked by him, you will be able to find him.
When a user block someone, ...
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Search public images in Google Photos
Short answer
At this time Google Photos doesn't include a feature for searching public photos and searching only photos in Google+ isn't not available at this time.
Explanation
Google Photos, Google ...
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How to prevent people from finding me by name search on Facebook?
On the Privacy tab in your settings, you'll find a number of settings, however there's no way to become completely incognito. If that's what you want, you'll need to leave Facebook.
Some things you ...
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How to search in a single channel?
The channel name should be preceded by the channel type character.
EG;
To find messages with text Hello in the personal channel Jake the search would be Hello in:@Jake
To find messages with text ...
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