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I've checked a post on my phone, than tried to search for it in my pc, but didn't succeeded for first try:

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After modification I've found it:

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There was just a slight difference: first search term contained Excel. I'd expect superuser's search engine to find questions when search term only partially contains a tag name (e.g. Excel instead of Microsoft-Excel in this case).

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    I have a lot of trouble getting useful results from Stack Exchange search.  I usually try it, first; then half the time I end up using Google with site:superuser.com.
    – Scott - Слава Україні
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 5:33
  • Search distinguishes between tags and content. If you want to include a tag, it needs to be in brackets and be the correct tag name. If it isn't in brackets, the word becomes part of the collection of search terms a post must contain. In this case, there is no post that contains both the words in the title plus the word "excel". However, [excel] is a synonym for [microsoft-excel], which is a tag that question includes, so including [excel] in the search string finds this question.
    – fixer1234
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 7:20
  • thanks fixer1234, it's more clear now. However I still think superuser's search engine should be more intelligent and find the question also in first case. I just can't memorize search rules for each site I use, and I think I'm not the only one...
    – Máté Juhász
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 7:41
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    @MátéJuhász - Its all a single search engine (thust all SE sites have the same rules), which means StackExchange, sounds like a SE feature request.
    – Ramhound
    Commented Oct 6, 2016 at 15:37

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