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Can we do more specific searches? If not are community members interested in adding it as a feature? [duplicate]

Is there a way to do more specific searches other then one or more word searches in the search bar? If I wanted to search a particular users questions, or answers for a specific word, is that ...
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Is there a way to search for questions with no accepted answer? [duplicate]

In here and a few other sites I spend a fair bit of time browsing through old questions to see if I can help in answering them. I've found that there a good number of questions classed as 'unanswered' ...
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Can we search for >1 predicate? [duplicate]

I tried the following searches: [harry-potter] isaccepted:1 answers:1 => 0 results [harry-potter] isaccepted:0 answers:1 => 0 results [harry-potter] isaccepted:1 => 900+ ...
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How do I search for questions I asked but where I haven't accepted an answer? [duplicate]

So you've asked a bunch of questions and have forgotten about them. How do you find out which questions may have been answered without you having accepted an answer?
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Is there a way to search but exclude questions with a certain tag? [duplicate]

I am currently reading A Song of Ice and Fire (just finished CoK) and I am really scared that I will accidentally read a question title that will spoil something really big for me. Is there a way to ...
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How can I exclude questions by a user (aka only include answers by a user) in search? [duplicate]

To find out all of the posts I made (say, in harry-potter tag), I can search for "user:976". But that includes ALL posts made by the user, both answers and questions. Can the search be refined to ...
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How do I use AND OR and NOT logic in searches? [duplicate]

I'm following Atwood's post here and he gives an example on how to search questions with the tag bug, but not the wildcard tag [tag:status-*]. How would I use this to search for, as an example, all ...
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Where's the search box? [duplicate]

The help center says there's a search box in the upper right corner of every page. I don't see one anywhere. Where is it?
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Proposals for a list of FAQ questions

For the pedants: yes, I realise that "FAQ questions" looks like a tautology, as it means "frequently asked questions questions". But in this context, the word FAQ refers to the tag, so it means "meta ...
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Why are search results different from suggested similar questions?

Sometimes I will search a topic and skim through dozens of questions on the search results page to conclude that a question hasn't been asked, but when I put the exact search term into the title of a ...
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Reopen this mistakenly-closed-as-duplicate question

The question Short story where man rejected from learning program and identified as untrainable was closed as a duplicate of Story where the protagonist is turned off from an automated system of ...
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