5 votes 5 votes First of all, I want to thank you all for creating such an amazing platform. Coming to my question, I would like to know how can I search all GATE questions from an specific subject/topic? I know I can use the GATE Overflow book, but I prefer the site and since there is no "GATE" tag associated with previous year questions, I am stuck. I tried following in tag fields: 1. gate compiler-design :generated URL https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate+compiler-design+ Above doesn't work coz all questions aren't tagged as "GATE" rather they are tagged as "GATE2016" "GATE2017" and so on So, gate2017 compiler-design (https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate2017+compiler-design+) will work but then it will only give CD questions of 2017. 2. So tried entering all GATE year tags along with the subject, hoping it will work gate2000 gate2001 gate2002 gate2003 gate2004 gate2004-it gate2005 gate2005-it gate2006 gate2006-it gate2007 gate2007-it gate2008 gate2008-it gate2009 gate2010 gate2011 gate2012 gate2013 gate2014-1 gate2014-2 gate2014-3 gate2015-1 gate2015-2 gate2015-3 gate2016-1 gate2016-2 gate2017-1 gate2017-2 compiler-design generated URL https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate2000+gate2001+gate2002+gate2003+gate2004+gate2004-it+gate2005+gate2005-it+gate2006+gate2006-it+gate2007+gate2007-it+gate2008+gate2008-it+gat+e2009+gate2010+gate2011+gate2012+gate2013+gate2014-1+gate2014-2+gate2014-3+gate2015-1+gate2015-2+gate2015-3+gate2016-1+gate2016-2+gate2017-1+gate2017-2+%C2%A0compiler-design Alas I realized that tag search only works for 2 tags. i.e. even gate2016-1 gate2017 compiler-design (https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate2017-1+gate2017-2++compiler-design) won't work. Please suggest some way. Or if possible please allow the searching from more than 2 tag fields. Thanks Others gateoverflow site-improvement meta + – moulin asked Oct 8, 2017 moulin 733 views answer comment Share Follow See all 0 reply Please log in or register to add a comment.
Best answer 3 votes 3 votes Tag search doesn't work the way you are expecting. However you can see all previous year GATE questions for particular subject like this : https://gateoverflow.in/categories -> choose subject say Algorithms (https://gateoverflow.in/questions/algorithms) -> click on Previous GATE tab.(https://gateoverflow.in/questions/algorithms?sort=gate) It might still give questions tagged as GATE2018..:) Ada answered Oct 8, 2017 • selected Oct 9, 2017 by moulin Ada comment Share Follow See 1 comment See all 1 1 comment reply moulin commented Oct 9, 2017 reply Follow Share Thanks, it almost works as you mentioned w/o even changing the settings option. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.
2 votes 2 votes You are welcome and thanks for the feedback. If you go to your account page, scroll down to end you can see a checkbox for seeing "only previous GATE" questions. After selecting that, you can use the site as it is and you will see only previous GATE questions. But remember to uncheck the box, if you want to see any other question. Tag search is actually not restricted to 2 -- it might be the string length restriction. Also, the check condition is AND, so adding more tags won't help here. We'll try to get a better-advanced search option. Arjun answered Oct 8, 2017 Arjun comment Share Follow See all 4 Comments See all 4 4 Comments reply moulin commented Oct 9, 2017 reply Follow Share Thank you for the settings option. Regarding tag search, I tried several other things, and wonder how the tag search is being implemented. This works: gate2017 theory-of-computation (https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate2017+theory-of-computation+) This doesn't: gate2004 gate2003 (https://gateoverflow.in/tag-search-page?q=gate2004+gate2003+) Now string length is lesser in 2nd one still it fails. Further if the check condition is AND then gate2004 gate2003 should be working as both gate2004 and gate2003 works independently. Thanks 0 votes 0 votes Arjun commented Oct 9, 2017 reply Follow Share AND means both tags must be present. 0 votes 0 votes moulin commented Oct 9, 2017 reply Follow Share Got it. But as a request, it would be great if there is something like an OR checkbox option which would allow for searching for questions that satisfy any of the given set of tags. Thanks. 0 votes 0 votes Arjun commented Nov 2, 2017 reply Follow Share Now there is an advanced search option on the side bar top. 0 votes 0 votes Please log in or register to add a comment.