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How to search for a comment left by a particular user on my post?
What is the efficient way to search for a comment left by a particular user on my post? I can go back into my activity/comments in my profile page and dig it up. But this comment was left by a user ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to “OR” search criteria?
Is there a way to specify a search whose results list is the union of two other searches?
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2answers
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What is the efficient way to search post with pictures/images?
I have answered quite a few posts with pictures/images. Is there a way to search MSE so that it lists all my posts, where I have used an image/picture?
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0answers
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Searching for a question
I entered the following into the search box and came up empty: \lim_{n\to\infty}(1+\frac xn)^n
I'd like to know whether someone has posted this question: How does one prove that
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1answer
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How to search in favorite questions?
As the number of my favorite questions increase, it becomes harder to find them in the list. Is there a way to search in my favorite questions?
Also, would it be possible to search in another user's ...
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1answer
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Searching for accented characters is too strict
A search for "lindelof"
and
a search for "lindelöf"
produce different results. In some sense the results are correct, since the first search finds only those posts that mention "lindelof" and the ...
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Unable to search my answers for a particular topic
In an effort to find this answer, I executed this query. I tried several other variants of this query, but I was unable to find my answer to a question about uncertainty. I thought I used to be able ...
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0answers
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Cannot find a question with all (or each) words within its topic
If I search "Menger" or "Menger's", this question will not show within the results:
Induction on Menger's theorem by Diestel in Graph Theory
If I search "Induction on Menger's theorem by Diestel ...
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1answer
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Is it possible to search for users in a given country?
Is it possible to search for users in a given country?
Of course you can only hope to find the users that have actually disclosed their location.
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1answer
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I can't search on ^
I was trying to search for duplicates for this question:
How to define the $0^0$?
But it's very hard to do this, as the search engine seem to ignore the ^ symbol.
Searching for "0^0" or "0 0" give ...
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0answers
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search among formerly featured questions
As far as I know, there is no “been formerly attributed a bounty” tag in the search options? I tend to like featured questions even when the bounty is no longer active and such a feature would be ...
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0answers
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Search queries involving symbols and/or $\TeX{}$
Currently some (most?) fairly crucial symbols such as = and ^ are truncated in search queries, making it pretty tough to find ...
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1answer
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How do you search for specific questions?
I have noticed that a lot of times people ask a question and a duplicate is instantly found. It's not necessarily true that the person hasn't tried to look up the question, but it is just hard to ...
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1answer
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How do we mark a question with standard Greek variables so that Google will direct someone who searched with English variables to that page?
In mathematics, oftentimes tradition dictates a standard to use non-English variables such as using Greek letters to represent ordinals and cardinals in set theory. How can we mark such questions so ...
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1answer
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How to filter only posts that are community wiki?
How to filter only posts that are community wiki? I got aware of the existence of the community wiki today, but I don't know how to filter only CW posts. I'm in need of some help because I'm searching ...
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1answer
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List of my unanswered questions
In the profile, each user has access to several classifications of his own questions : according to "newest", "reputation", "activity" etc
Is there a way I can access the list of all my unanswered ...
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3answers
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How to intersect users and tags?
I would like to see all the questions with a given tag that user xxx has asked or answered.
How do I do that?
Edit
I have received three fine explanations, more than completely answering my ...
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1answer
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Advanced Super Ninja Search Options: hasnotice
Chossing "hasnotice:1" as search option, gave back all question, where a bounty is active.
Shouldn't it be called "hasbounty" then?
Or what else is it good for?
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1answer
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How do you search for duplicates
Sometimes I am really surprised how fast are the duplicates of new question found, given that we have vast amount of questions here.
I hope posting this question here can be useful and can lead to ...
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1answer
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Formatting in the Search Results page breaks when the query contains certain terms
I've noticed that when a search query contains terms that are usually typeset in $\LaTeX$, the formatting in the Search Results page becomes messed up.
I'm assuming this issue occurs because the ...
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1answer
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Negative searches
I think a useful feature would be negative searches: searches in which at least one term is constrained to not occur (but no more than all but one terms, of course -- you wouldn't want to bring back ...
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1answer
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Search automatically assuming tags
I was searching for measure-theory questions which had the word "algebra" in them.
At first I was searching "algebra [measure-theory]" and much to my surprise the result was that it searched for ...
