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Being able to effectively locate content in your knowledge base is an important skill. Sometimes, you need to go beyond basic searches to find what you need and filter out what you don't. Stack Overflow for Teams offers many advanced search capabilities to make your searches precise and efficient.

To learn more about basic search functions, read the Basic Search article. To learn how to search your knowledge base and the public Stack Overflow site at the same time, read the Unified Search article.

When you first place your cursor in the empty search box, you'll see helpful tips displayed under the search box.

The top of the search results page has an Advanced Search Tips link. Click it to see instructions for some of the most useful advanced search operators.

Click Advanced Search Tips again to hide the tips.

SOE offers a number of advanced search operators to help you refine and focus your searches. You can combine multiple operators as needed.

Range operators allow you to search for questions that fall within a particular range for score, number of answers, or number of views. You can enter an upper or lower parameter, or a range.

You can use specific dates or date ranges to find posts created or active within a certain time period. You can use the following operators for date searches.

Stack Overflow for Teams search supports the following date formats.

The start of a date range is the first calendar day of the range, while the end is the last calendar day of the range. For example: if you specify a year, the search range will start on January 1 and end on December 31.

​Relative dates are calculated relative to the current day. You can use shorthand terms "1y", "1m", and "1d" for "last year", "last month", and "yesterday" respectively. Use a number larger than 1 to search X years, months, or days ago. Use ".." to specify a start and end for a range.

Here are some examples of relative date and date range searches.

NOTE: All times are in UTC (Coordinated Universal Time), so the results may not match your timezone.

You can also limit searches to a specific user's content (your own or someone else's).

In advanced searches, "me" and "mine" are shorthand for your user ID. You can substitute these for the user ID in any user ID-based search.

Advanced search offers several boolean operators that generate identical results: 1/0, true/false, or yes/no. The following search operators use booleans.

The following boolean search operators are available only on Stack Overflow for Teams Enterprise. Find your plan.

To combine results from multiple tags, separate the tag names (enclosed in square brackets) with the word "or". For example: the search "[apples] or [bananas]" returns questions tagged with either tag. Omitting "or" from the search implies the "and" operator, resulting in the search returning only those posts tagged with both tags.

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