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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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38
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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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18
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How to search with boolean 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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Is there a way to search only liked videos in my YouTube account?
For me I found that History page have search at the right:
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Is there a way to search only liked videos in my YouTube account?
Update: As of August 31 2023, the YouTube playlist search script is unfortunately no longer available.
If you have a user script manager like Greasemonkey installed, you can use the aptly named ...
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Accepted
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 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 boolean 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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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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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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Is there a way to search only liked videos in my YouTube account?
Here, very easy with the Playlist Search for YouTube Chrome extension.
Click on the link above, then click "Add to Chrome" and confirm the pop-up.
Pin the extension by clicking the puzzle ...
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Why don't I find any expected results when google-searching with search terms that start with dashes?
gcc -Wall actually tells the Google search engine to include things that match "gcc", and exclude things that match "Wall". This is because the dash/hyphen character, "-",...
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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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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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3
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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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Search only headers and/or only in outline of Google Docs
I use this workaround: If you add a table of contents (Insert > Table of contents) at the begining of the page, you can use the normal search bar of the document and look at the first matches to ...
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How can I search for one label but not another?
Gmail labels are applied per message, not per thread. If any messages in a thread don't have the excluded label applied, then the thread will still show up in your search.
If you turn off "...
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Order of operations when using <AND> and <OR > in a boolean search on Twitter
social media metrics OR analytics
The OR operator will attach to the word that immediately precedes it, very much like order of operations in algebra. For example, the above query will find tweets ...
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How do you search videos that were uploaded on a YouTube channel in a certain time period?
Use after:year-month-day (inclusive) and before:year-month-day (exclusive).
E.g. for cat videos from 2012: cats after:2012-01-01 before:2013-01-01:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=cats+...
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How do you search videos that were uploaded on a YouTube channel in a certain time period?
Add after:(date of video) in your search.
For example: after:2013-03-29 will return anything upload after the 29th March 2013.
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Search in all GitHub repositories for files with a specific name
Legacy Syntax
The in:path qualifier described in the accepted answer from 2014 is now part of GitHub's legacy syntax and should only be used if searching code using the REST API endpoint.
Current ...
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Is it possible to do a Boolean OR search on Trello?
Based on this response set, and my reading of the manual, the answer is strictly NO. it is not possible to do the boolean | or function, distinct from the boolean & and function: you can do ...
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How to search within a product's reviews on Amazon
Amazon changed layout a bit. The Search Option still there and got expanded. At the end of the summary for reviews section, click on the blue number that has how many reviews a product has. Then, ...
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How can I search reminders in Google Inbox, but not search emails?
You can use the "is:reminder" operator. To exclude completed from your result, also specify "-is:done".
keyword is:reminder -is:done
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How to search based on part of file name in Google Drive
Search File names only:
Search for word title:java
Any one of words search title:java scala
Should be all words search title:"java scala"
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Global find and replace in Trello
Trello doesn't provide "search and replace" functionality. Best you can do is use the API to find the relevant cards:
https://developers.trello.com/advanced-reference/search#get-1-search
...then ...
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How to search in a single channel?
When you are in the channel in which you want to search, just use Command+F on MacOS or Ctrl+F on other operating systems. It will pre-populate the search field with in:#<channel-name> for you.
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