I'm looking for a great ask.me answer about buying quality shoes that's probably several years old. There was an answer from a shoe store manager(owner?) that was very good, and I think it was sideblogged. Which brings me to my 2nd question: Is the sideblog searchable?
posted by theora55 on Nov 15, 2009 - 20 comments

Ongoing tagging and the backtagging project. [more inside]
posted by mr_crash_davis mark II: Jazz Odyssey on Oct 31, 2009 - 34 comments

Is there a way to search within an AskMe category (e.g., Home and Garden)? I can't think of a unique enough keyword that would narrow it down under a few hundred questions, but I know the category. I know about tags; that's not helping me either. If this doesn't exist, can we make it so? [more inside]
posted by desjardins on Oct 13, 2009 - 23 comments

There was a recent post of a video where a guy slides down the side of a hill, launches off a ramp & lands in a pool. I'm usually pretty good at this but my search-fu is failing me & I can't find it. Help?
posted by scalefree on Sep 24, 2009 - 32 comments

A minor pony: on the search results page, can the number of comments for each post be included in the "posted by" line, the same way it is on the main page? [more inside]
posted by oulipian on Sep 13, 2009 - 7 comments

Pony: Search MeMail? [more inside]
posted by Miko on Aug 18, 2009 - 56 comments

I was experimenting with Google's search suggestions feature when I noticed that it gave some interesting results for "metafilter + [letter]". Since it returns the most popular search terms starting with that phrase, what you get for each letter is an A-Z listing of the most sought-after topics related to Metafilter. So without further ado, I give you... Metafilter A to Z. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Aug 11, 2009 - 179 comments

Pony request: We can already sort the posts and comments in search results by date or by relevance. Would it be possible (or even desirable) to sort by the number of favorites each item has? [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Jul 6, 2009 - 32 comments

Did I hallucinate a Metafilter comment? I remember reading the line "Play him hither, Lute Cat" on Metafilter recently and though it was so hilarious I needed to illustrate it. I wanted to give credit to the original commenter, but I can't for the life of me find the comment. All my styles of google-fu have failed me. Did this comment actually exist?
posted by The Whelk on Jun 30, 2009 - 57 comments

Would it be possible to alter the "sort by relevance" option on the search function to include how often the requested term was used in the comments/responses? [more inside]
posted by 12%juicepulp on Jun 2, 2009 - 4 comments

I am missing something? When I search for something in AskMe, I sometimes see a comment (under the comments tab), or an excerpt from a comment, that I might want to explore by, say, clicking on said comment and viewing the entire post. Is there a simple way to do this? Am I missing an obvious link to the comment(s) in context? (Also, suggestions on asking about this without saying "comment" so many times are appreciated)
posted by deadcrow on May 1, 2009 - 48 comments

Is there a good way to find my deleted posts? [more inside]
posted by plexi on Apr 9, 2009 - 80 comments

Is there a reason for not having a search facility in the podcasts section? [more inside]
posted by tellurian on Apr 8, 2009 - 16 comments

I'm looking for a comment on Mefi or AskMe where someone gave an extended quote from a scientist/commentator (maybe Richard Feynman), explaining why it's rational for a layperson to believe what scientists say, even if you haven't figured out the mechanics of how they arrived at their conclusions. The gist was that it's sufficient just to know that the scientists are generally skilled at figuring things out. (That's probably oversimplifying, which is why I want to find the actual passage.) [more inside]
posted by Jaltcoh on Mar 31, 2009 - 39 comments

Mefi search doesn't seem to handle very short (specifically, two character) usernames correctly. [more inside]
posted by jeb on Mar 6, 2009 - 37 comments

This is probably obvious, which is why I couldn't find it in the FAQ or the search. Why do people preface their questions with "[blank] filter:"? Does it help future searches and RSS filters?
posted by dicetumbler on Jan 23, 2009 - 33 comments

There was once a post that referenced a person saying "I been done heard that ol' shit" but I can't find it anymore. [more inside]
posted by Hands of Manos on Jan 6, 2009 - 21 comments

Why doesn't the Metafilter search also look through deletedthread to find duplicates?
posted by gman on Nov 15, 2008 - 47 comments

[previous-filter] mefi checks if fpp links have previously been posted. how about doing the same for a few of the other large sites out there? [more inside]
posted by krautland on Aug 30, 2008 - 42 comments

Yeah. I know this makes me seem wildly stupid, but... I was trying to post a question on AskMe. I wanted to post it anonomously. (It was a medical question.) But I couldn't figure it out. I either had to post under my pseudonym, or I had to get a new account. That can't be right?
posted by Dumsnill on Aug 4, 2008 - 47 comments

Can't find a post. Did extensive search, but search-fu is off, or I am not remembering key details. [more inside]
posted by cjorgensen on Aug 1, 2008 - 12 comments

When you post a question in AskMe, on preview, you're shown similar questions and asked whether you've seen those. Is there a way to open that functionality up as a search tool? [more inside]
posted by stupidsexyFlanders on Jul 31, 2008 - 8 comments

Am I missing something from the search function? I can't ever, ever seem to find posts. [more inside]
posted by TomMelee on Jul 14, 2008 - 8 comments

When I preview my inchoate FPP, the link search informs me that my links were found in three previous threads, but only sometimes. [more inside]
posted by prefpara on Jul 9, 2008 - 27 comments

Looking for a post about a programmer who worked at Atari and blogged about his work... [more inside]
posted by Blazecock Pileon on Jul 8, 2008 - 19 comments

Can anyone help me find an old AskMe post about keeping promises that I forgot to favorite? [more inside]
posted by PFL on Jun 23, 2008 - 2 comments

Searching for a url doesn't seem to work when the url is below the fold.
posted by homunculus on Jun 20, 2008 - 30 comments

Looks like you're searching for an exact phrase. The local search doesn't do that so well. Why not?
posted by sluglicker on Jun 16, 2008 - 36 comments

Can we search our favorites by user name? If not, can we get that feature added? [more inside]
posted by Brandon Blatcher on May 21, 2008 - 49 comments

My blushes at making a duplicate post to the blue have been spared more than once by the code which scans my proposed URLs and looks to see it there is an existing match. Phew! However I have only ever found a way of accessing this facility after having first of all composed a post to the point where I can preview it - hence wasting quite a lot of time. Is there a way to access this scan directly?
posted by rongorongo on Apr 4, 2008 - 19 comments

search by flickr name? [more inside]
posted by nomisxid on Mar 24, 2008 - 17 comments

What happened to the "Search" link on the front page of the blue? I apologize if this has been covered in the recent threads about new search features in other areas (and please direct me there if this is the case), but I just noticed that the "Search" link in the blue - which I used frequently - is gone).
posted by amyms on Mar 7, 2008 - 15 comments

On the change to the search function re: usernames... [more inside]
posted by mdn on Mar 2, 2008 - 25 comments

I tried to gift a membership to a minor internet celebrity, but I got the message "It appears your friend already has an account, as this email address is in use". Really? That's cool -- now who is it? Can there be a way of entering in an address and getting a username back, so I can add that account to my contacts?
posted by ewagoner on Feb 22, 2008 - 74 comments

User activity search is available on profile pages. [more inside]
posted by pb on Feb 18, 2008 - 78 comments

New search is not my favorite [more inside]
posted by ZackTM on Feb 13, 2008 - 27 comments

Listing posts by a specific user with a specific tag fails for some older posts, probably because they've been retrospectively tagged. [more inside]
posted by Burger-Eating Invasion Monkey on Feb 12, 2008 - 5 comments

I apologise if this has been covered before, but is there a way to search within a given users comments? I want to find a link I posted ages ago, but my search terms are way too general for a regular MeFi search.
posted by maryh on Feb 11, 2008 - 34 comments

The new Search is officially live. Full details to follow. [more inside]
posted by mathowie on Jan 31, 2008 - 69 comments

So Matt said "Full text search is in the works right now, and will be rolled out soon." Yayhooray! This is the part where I annoy him and pb and make their lives more difficult by asking everybody about their dream search features (and slip in a request or seven of my own). [more inside]
posted by stavrosthewonderchicken on Jan 30, 2008 - 44 comments

New post form's URL search is broken. [more inside]
posted by knave on Jan 6, 2008 - 19 comments

I seem to remember that in the wake of this question someone mentioned (on MeTa, I think) putting all the books that appealed to them into an Amazon wishlist. They were then able to use some sort of tool that exported it into a format useful for taking it to their public library. Does anyone remember this posting? I tried to search for it but my googleFu blah blah blah...
posted by Deathalicious on Dec 20, 2007 - 14 comments

It's getting increasingly harder to find stuff. Especially favorite stuff. There have been a few great suggestions and observations so far, especially in this thread. [more inside]
posted by iamkimiam on Dec 17, 2007 - 28 comments

A good while ago, there was an AskMe question along the lines of 'what are the things you love to recommend', 'give me your top recommendations', and so on. Can anyone help me find it?
posted by flibbertigibbet on Dec 15, 2007 - 9 comments

There was a list in the last few weeks of a bunch of weird places to get christmas gifts. One was the american science supply and the author commented that a similar list was put up last year. Searching metafilter and ask metafilter has proven fruitless. Can someone get me back to the post? thanks.
posted by history is a weapon on Nov 8, 2007 - 7 comments

I have found a bug. You can never get to the second+ page of a tag search. [more inside]
posted by rbs on Nov 3, 2007 - 6 comments

This is a two parter. One: there's a disparity in behavior between the search box on the bottom and top of Ask. Two, why isn't 'recent activity' set to nofollow like profile pages? [more inside]
posted by phearlez on Oct 31, 2007 - 24 comments

Out of curiosity, why is the main Metafilter search page different when logged out and logged in? [more inside]
posted by Upton O'Good on Oct 26, 2007 - 9 comments

Is there some way to have the option of excluding Mefi users' pages from search results? [more inside]
posted by Pope Guilty on Oct 17, 2007 - 12 comments

I saw a question recently that I have been unable to find. Please help me. [more inside]
posted by cleo on Oct 16, 2007 - 3 comments