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362 questions with no upvoted or accepted answers
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Search by keyword for answer / question I upvoted

I have upvoted many questions / answers, and my profile > votes > upvotes has 20 pages. I am looking for a question which I upvoted long ago because I need it again, and I only know it contains ...
37 votes
0 answers
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Ignore American and British English spelling differences

This is network-wide, I'll demonstrate with dba.SE Searching for localisation gives 5 results: localisation, localised, localisation, localised and localisation Searching for localization gives 2481 ...
36 votes
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Could we please use ElasticSearch stemmers tuned for non-English language sites?

TLDR: Can’t we please use stemmers matched to site languages? According to this post from Nick Craver and this post from Haney, our searches are using the ElasticSearch stemmers. The problem is that ...
33 votes
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Add sort option to search

There are a lot of feature requests based on sorting a set of questions, gathered by tabs or by searching, like this one. How about we add a sort: option to the search box, for example sort:newest ...
31 votes
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Group search results by question

Can search results be grouped by what question they came from? It is currently quite confusing to have questions and their answers right next to each other. Here is an example of the confusion caused ...
28 votes
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Allow us to use the [-] symbol to exclude results in other operators, not just tags

I can use - before a tag to mean "not that tag". For example, I can search for "not python" on SO. However, this doesn't seem to work for other operators. For example, using -user:...
26 votes
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Required rep values for privileges appears as '$Privilege-<PrivilegeName>' in help center search results

The parameter for reputation points values required for privileges is not resolved in the help center search results. Stack Overflow: Science Fiction & Fantasy: This should probably be resolved ...
25 votes
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Moderator tools need the ability to search

Some key moderator lists lack any ability to search text. This includes Open moderator flags Moderator messages Community Team escalations User annotations Somewhat related is that the Users page (/...
21 votes
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Are there any statistics on how often a search in the Help Center ends in "0 Results"

I saw an MSO post (10k only) where the user tried to search for their issue in the Help center. Their search term didn't return any results which shows them this page: Before I'm proposing a feature ...
21 votes
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Search among posts you've voted for

Related posts: Possible to search questions I voted on? Show all the posts I voted up in my user account details These posts are different from mine in that they merely ask for the "votes" ...
20 votes
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² (squared) not a valid search or URL character

The character ² is not a valid search character. On Electrical Engineering, one common term is I²C, sometimes (correctly) spelled as I²C (IIC or I-squared-C). A search for I²C does not throw an error, ...
19 votes
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Unable to search for "no" in chat rooms

In chat searches, any search for the text "no" yields no results: "No" said by me in the Tavern (no results although I have definitely said "no") RSS Feed for "no&...
19 votes
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How can I search for custom off-topic close reasons?

I would like to get statistics on the use of site-specific off-topic subreasons and to see what kinds of free-form reasons have been used. How can I do that? As far as I can tell this is still not ...
18 votes
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Can something be done to not CAPTCHA every search from DuckDuckGo's bangs?

DuckDuckGo (DDG) has a feature called bangs that lets you use sequences of characters staring with ! (in this case !so) to redirect your browser to that site's search page. For example, if you type in ...
18 votes
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Advanced Search Options: "intags: mine" does not support [tag:wildcards*]

I sometimes use the advanced search options to look for questions to answer. For example I may search for questions with: answers:0 score:1 created:2018-02 intags:mine I've recently started using ...

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