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Reverse lookup duplicate questions? [duplicate]
Is there a way to search for questions which have been marked as a duplicate of another specific question?
I've been aware of a particular technical problem for some time. I know for sure that other ...
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Is it reasonable for dupes to appear before the non-dupe in search results? [duplicate]
If you search Stack Overflow for [c++] static block, you get this (as of 2021-11-08):
Q: What is static block in c or c++? [duplicate]
Q: Static blocks in C++ [duplicate]
Q: What's the C++ idiom ...
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Should we search in answers too, to avoid asking a question about that same matter? [duplicate]
Can asking a question that has an answer in another question result in being duplicate?
For example, imagine someone wants to ask if the recipe in this website is really original or not.
He tries to ...
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When searching on stackexchange you get a list of search results. Each topic also contains a list of its tags below it.
When adding a new question, after typing the title, a field "...
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Augment search with a duplicate-target keyword or similar
Often when I search for the duplicate when voting to close as duplicate, the duplicate target I search for has been used as duplicate before. So one way to search for dupe-targets (or maybe reverse-...
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Find question closed as duplicates of multiple targets
Currently you can search for questions closed as duplicate by using a search option duplicate:1. What if to interpret this number as a number of origins? 0 and 1 are already working as expected, 2 ...
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Is it okay to ask intentionally dupe questions to help to find a real one? [duplicate]
Imagine a situation, that I've once read a question (and its answers) on a site. I would need the information again, so I try to find the question as I can (mainly, asking the search bar of the SE, ...
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What is the largest number of questions being duplicates of one another ("Groups of duplicates")?
Many people have found questions asked once and again. The reasons for the OP to post a dupe might be varied (lazy at searching, unlucky at searching, feeling that the question being posted is ...
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Search on duplicates is broken
I have seen quite some posts about the duplicate search being broken, and I had like to do another report which really hurts users trying to find duplicates.
I try to find a post using the exact ...
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Is asking a similar question but without irrelevant context OK?
I am wondering if it is alright to re-ask a question if you can only find context-specific questions that use methods that can solve your problem but is not your specific problem (probably most ...
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Implement pass-through results for "Closing -> Duplicate" search window?
By "pass-through" I mean:
If the search terms or pasted URL in the "Closing -> Duplicate" search window would (through ordinary search) display a question with zero answers, AND
If that question has ...
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Promote and mark your favorites in duplicate search
The Favorites feature is handy for marking specific questions as important for some reason. What if we made it possible to use that signal in the duplicate close dialog so that favorited candidates (...
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Improve search by omitting "closed as duplicate", "closed as low quality", etc., by default
I apologize if this idea has been brought up before, but if so I couldn't find it because the search feature is a little hard to use.... :P
I just did a search on the Unix & Linux stackexchange ...
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Is asking duplicate questions to improve searchability okay? [duplicate]
There's a certain answer which contains something very useful to me which I fairly regularly go back and reference, however I often have difficulty finding the Q&A again because the question is ...
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Is it possible to limit the linked questions list using additional search criteria?
For example, https://stackoverflow.com/questions/linked/13047806?q=duplicate%3Ayes shows the questions linked to/from question with 13047806 id. Note: the query duplicate:yes in the link is ignored: ...
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