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A search for [amazon-*] hasaccepted:false results in 32,000 answers.

However, a search for [amazon-*] [aws-*] hasaccepted:false results in only 11,000 answers, even though the displays shows both terms result in OR statements:

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Why would searching for more OR conditions result in fewer results?

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    Are you sure you've got all [amazon-*] tags in that search?
    – Cerbrus
    Commented Dec 19, 2016 at 10:31
  • It appears that a wildcard tag search is limited to 20 tags, so there could actually be questions that I'm missing because they have other tags. Is there a way to include more than 20 tags tags in a wildcard search of one term?
    – John Rotenstein
    Commented Dec 20, 2016 at 2:59

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Ah! A search for either [amazon-*] or [aws-*] each result in 20 tags.

I've just noticed that the list of tags (shown above) does not have an OR between the amazon and aws tags, so it must be doing an AND.

Indeed, I've just found that searching for [amazon-*] OR [aws-*] results in 57,000 tag results. So, the answer is that it needed an OR. I didn't notice this earlier.

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