I want to search if anyone has asked anything about [how-to-ask]. I typed \[how-to-ask] (brings me \[how-to-ask]), \[how-to-ask\] (brings me \[how-to-ask]) and [how-to-ask\] (brings a non-existent tag). Does anyone know how to search for such stuffs?
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Situation: It started out as me  for the literal string C-c in  but it ended up omitting the - sign and showing results which contained the strings C/C++ and C &amp; C++.  is an example of a post which contains that string of characters (yet fails to show up in the results).  Things I've tried:   post suggests that I can use the undocumented code: operator, but when I do that, it just wraps the whole term in double quotes like .  As @terdon in Unix &amp; Linux chat has , using this  does yield some relevant results, but it doesn't show me  that is supposed to be there. edit: It appears that the Symbolhound query no longer returns that result.  Finally,  says that you can search for literal characters, but as you can see:    Quoted phrases are exact matches except for case-sensitivity, for example, you can search  or .  The second example (symbols) leads to 0 results.  So by now I assume that the search engine has changed (but the old documentation still lingers on this site). Is there a method for me to search for strings that include special (or is it literal?) characters?
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Searching via the search box  I was looking for unanswered questions in the "Unanswered" section and searched using this query [javascript] [jquery]. This tag search gave results from the "Questions" section instead of results from "Unanswered" section (button beside badges button, not questions > unaswered).   Is this the expected behavior, i.e. does the SO's search ignore the fact that I am searching from the "Unanswered" section?  Searching via clicking tags  If I click on  then click on  in the "Unanswered" section (beside badges button), I get questions tagged with  or , not and, even though both show up in the search and url. You can see in  and how it shows resukts with just one tag of the 2 I choose.   Is this the expected result? In "Questions" section, if you click on  then click on , it returns questions with  or , not and.
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This search should not be searching in any tags:    But it "helpfully" adds the [wpf] tag to my search criteria.  I can't seem to get it to f**k-off-and-do-what-I-say, either.
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When I search for a question I'd like to be shown the same results as when I type in a title in &quot;n&quot; I often use the &quot;Ask Question&quot; as a search tool, like this: Some results!  Better results?  Update: I have updated the screen shot to a version without quote marks, the two search results are still inconsistent. But are they better?
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Occasionally (very occasionally) when returning to the main page of a site by clicking on the logo I get the following message:     It was not possible to perform this tag search at this time due to an unexpected error.   This is odd because I'm not performing a tag search.  So far this has happened on both Movies &amp; TV and Cooking.  I have heard that others are getting this same message.
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If I search for kiosk on StackOverflow, I get redirected to an empty tag.  Instead, I would like the search results for the general term, kiosk.  Is there a way to force the search function to not redirect to a tag?
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First off, if this is an exact duplicate somewhere, I will find it quite ironic (and even more clearly need an answer to this question...).  I am wondering how to best find duplicate questions. Currently, I try to use a combination of "I remember a question about this..." and then browsing tags or searching terms. Normally this doesn't work so I resort to a google search with site:_____.stackexchange.com as a search term and what I believe would be keywords. Note this might be site:workplace.stackexchange.com or site:stackoverflow.com depending on what site.  I notice a lot of questions closed as duplicates (rightly so) which leads me to believe I'm missing something about this. Or is it as simple as some people having spent so much more time on SE sites that they have read and thus remember most questions?  What is the best way to find duplicate questions?  As a note,  is related and  is somewhat related (but doesn't directly address my question nor do the answers).
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Click on the tag "ruby-on-rails" from a job or just go to  and you'll see a lot of jobs (969 for me right now), a lot of them not containing the tag. I think that the results are actually just the search result for the "Ruby on Rails" string, using OR.
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My question—my meta-question as the case may be—concerns the purpose of these words referred to as "tags". Let me be clear: I use tags. The site supports them, so why shouldn't I? My understanding of their reason for existing is tragically incomplete.   Are they used for searching? Are they useful in any other way, or do they merely act as decoration?     For more information, see "" and "" in the .
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When you visit the global search page:        and want to search for a tag like we used to do on the site search like so:     [haskell] pattern   you're directed to the error page with the Panda.  If tag search is supposed to work, can this be fixed? If tag search is not supposed to work there can you at a minimum not throw an error?
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I was trying to do a search for new questions using the advanced search tags such as is:question and intags:mine. This normally works well, but today it is not showing any questions newer than 2nd June. For example, try this link which should show all questions in my tags, ordered by newest first:  http://stackoverflow.com/search?tab=newest&amp;q=intags%3amine   Has some back-end script stopped running perhaps?  Edit:  Search appears to be out-of-date for all search type (not just advanced search) and across all SE sites.  Edit: after working fine for a while, the bug is back in July 30th 2014:
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How do I search for questions with specific tags?       For more information about searching, see &quot;&quot; in the .
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I searched for "stack overflow" in the search bar, but it doesn't list the results normally. Instead, it redirects me to the tag .  Why is this happening, and how can I search for posts literally containing "stack overflow"?
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Searching for " should return a list of questions that have the tag [comments] but not the tag [feature-request]. The right hand sidebar says that, but the search results are identical to .    As random points out, the operator works, but seems to be broken if a minus sign is the first tag in the resulting search URL. This is a problem because the system re-orders the tags when you put them into the search box, always putting the one with the minus sign first.    Edit: Here's another behaviour that I haven't encountered until now. I was trying to pattern search for tags that contain 'array' but NOT include '-array', so I did the search . The resulting page shows the right tags with the right operators on them, but the results aren't being filtered properly (the first result includes [multidimensional-array]). So I simplified and  (1,960 results), and then  (1,963 results -- what??), which still included that first question with [multidimensional-array] on it. Something is not working right here.
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What is the syntax to use for searching the text of the questions that I've posted? i.e. Limit the search to just the questions that I've asked and just the Title/Subject/Question part of it....
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Would inferring tags from a question's title and body and filling them automatically into the tag field (or at least suggesting them separately as a hint list or something) be worthwhile?  Note that I'm not referring to the tag auto-complete that goes on already, mind you.  Edit: The way I see it, it's the people who struggle defining their problems who probably need the most help with getting them solved. That's what I'm implying with this question, just so you know.
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I was doing a little cleanup in a tag recently, and was wanting to find any questions with only that tag, since that often means they weren't tagged very well and are in need of a few more.  Unfortunately, there was no good way in the advanced search to do this. You can exclude a specific tag, but there doesn't appear to be a way to exclude all but one (or a subset). Also, tags can't be quantified with a range operator like, for example, answers can (i.e. answers:3 for all questions with 3 or more answers).  Is there a way to do this with the current search that I've overlooked? If not, could a tags:N search option be added to narrow down the search based on the number of tags a question has?