In How do I find topics I'm interested in?, under Search tags,
If you're looking for questions about multiple topics, you can also search by tags. Our site search recognizes tags enclosed in brackets (like this:
[tag]
), as well as the search operatorsAND
andOR
. The default operator isAND
– i.e., searching for "[tag1] [tag2]" returns posts tagged with both.
The AND
operator, if included, doesn't really work.
A search with [house-rules] AND [senate-rules]
. Gives,
Results for and tagged with house-rules senate-rules
Note that "and" in the above is the word "and" appearing in questions and answers.
There are 12 results, including 4 questions and 8 answers.
Removing the "AND" gives 5 questions and no answers, because one of the questions does not contain the word "and".
(The OR
search operator works, but care is required if one uses OR
in combination with other tags intended to be AND
ed or excluded.)
It being the case that the "AND
operator" doesn't work, the mention of AND
as a search operator should be removed and note that the "The default behavior is to AND
...".
AND
operator functionality seems to have been removed a long time ago. I've added the status review tag because regular mods can't edit the help pages.