Questions tagged [search]
For questions about built-in search functionality of this site and about searching this site using external search engines.
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What should be the general procedure for tags which are synonymized but not merged?
On Mathematics Stack Exchange, there are several tag synonyms which haven't been merged; meaning that both the master tag and the synonym contain some questions.1
The situation when there is a synonym ...
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How do I sort questions by views?
Suppose I am searching for a question, and there are many similarish questions to that which come on the search. How do I filter out for those questions which have the maximum views?
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Feature: Option for larger view of each post in the "Search page"
Currently when we search for some keyword in MSE we get a snippet view of each search result
I was wondering if we can include the option for "larger view", where we see a snippet of at ...
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Removing a tag does not immediately remove the question from the list of questions for the tag
I just removed the geometric-probability tag from Coupon collector problem with a large set of coupons. When I then searched for questions with this tag (https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/...
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Why is the user:me search function works (while I am logged in) but when I log out and search user:StephenElliott or user:Stephen Elliott dosen't work
I want to be able to share my Questions and Answers with friends and family, but I do not want to give them my account password, of course.
I can search for my questions and answers successfully while ...
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Why I seemingly cannot find my question when searching but then later when I get flagged for duplicate question I find the similar question
I try to avoid creating duplicates but I always fail.
Consider my recent question.
I was searching the finite subgroup criterion.
So I typed into the search function
"Finite subgroup criterion&...
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Feature: Include option for more Page buttons in the search results
In the search page, we often get many pages. For example, I want to go through the non-answered questions in the SDEs
https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/stochastic-differential-equations?...
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Update the Help Center article on searching to mention the in:saves operator in place of the inbookmarks:mine operator
The Help Center article titled "How do I search?" needs to be updated to mention the in:saves operator in place of the deprecated ...
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How to search MSE for a formula? [duplicate]
I don't know how to search a formula in Math.SE. For example last time I asked a question about $\sum_{n=1}^{\infty}\left(n \ln \frac{2 n+1}{2 n-1}-1\right)$; but this question has been closed since ...
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How to search a question/answer in MSE
I have missed a question asked in MSE yesterday. I tried searching it but in vain.
Can someone help me in searching $(1+\frac{1}{x})\text{arcTan} x >1$ here in MSE?
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Feature request:- Make the search bar support latex
For instance consider $\int_0^1 e^{x^2-x}dx$. before asking for help with a certain aspect of this question, I attempted to search for it on MSE. However, this is what I got.
The worst part is how the ...
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How to quickly find recent questions with lots of upvotes?
Sometimes I want to find recent questions with lots of upvotes. My current way to do so is to go to Questions -> Newest, then do a lot of down-scrolling while visually scanning the numbers of votes....
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Custom TeX command doesn't render in search results
In my answer to Collecting Stickers! Evaluate occurrence of duplicates? I defined a custom TeX command \stir, which is rendered correctly on the page itself. When ...
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Searching and text delimiters
On math.meta, when I do a search for cstheory I get several results, none of which is this one:
(The question is here.)
For it to find this question as well I have ...
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Is there a way to see related questions *before* I post a question? [duplicate]
Is there a way to see related questions before I post a question?
I recently posted this question. After I wrote the question, but before I posted it, I went through the automatically-generated list ...
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