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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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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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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 boolean operators on GitHub?
Code Search
GitHub's code search* supports boolean expressions:
You can use the operators AND, OR, and NOT to combine search terms.
By default, adjacent terms separated by whitespace are equivalent ...
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Is there a way to search through liked videos on 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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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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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 there a way to search labels based on stemming in Gmail?
You can do a wildcard match using Regex within Google Apps Script, which accesses your Gmail. If you want to do a simple search based on a given word as the root, you can use the simpler test() ...
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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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