I am searching on StackOverflow site for SolrNet based Question/Answers relating to edismax  But it is giving me same result in single result page but as different Q: and A: prefix and votes respective to those Question and Answer.     However I believe if the resulting item are point to same question (when you hover the links will show same question id in url) then it should be not shown twice or so Because this way I am being kept far far away from probable question or answer and page 1 is populated with duplicate.  Thus also the count of 20 results (shown in screenshot) is very much incorrect.    Search Url:     Search Text: solr edismax [solrnet]    Search Screenshot:
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The Stack Overflow search shows questions twice. See  for example.  Results include "A: Add Search Engine into MVC Music Store" and "Q: Add Search Engine into MVC Music Store".  Why is search displaying the question twice, and what does "Q" and "A" mean?  Edit:   @Stephen answer :  The search is returning both a question (Q) and an answer (A) to the question, as both posts match your search criteria.  and my another question  If the question have multiple (like 100) answer ,then the answer link(A: Question Link) shown 100 times?  Is it correct functionality ? But i saw only one answer link , not a other answer link .. why ?
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I saw a question on Meta that was obviously going to be a duplicate:        And indeed, looking at the "Related" questions list for that question showed a number of duplicates:    Being the good citizen I am, I tried to vote to close (technically Flag as duplicate as I've not got the rep here to vote to close) it as an Exact Duplicate only to find myself falling into a rabbit hole of Closed, Duplicate questions. Is there any way to flag a closed question as such in the Related list?  Mostly because the first one I picked was closed as a duplicate of the second one, which was closed as a duplicate of the one that is now listed as the duplicate/linked answer.   Edit to respond to comment:  I take the point about "not voting to close on title alone", and normally wouldn't, however as the questions had identical titles, and it's pretty clear what they should be asking, I clicked the first one:    which lead to:  which leads to:  - but I'd got bored following links and didn't check that one as the first two were identical, so assumed this was too and didn't want to see how deep the rabbit hole led.   In the related list, there's only one other question in there that is an exact duplicate, but hasn't (currently) been closed as such which is:      Reasoning for highlighting closed questions:  The "Questions with similar titles" does display the closed titles when asking the question, so it should be fairly possible to include.  If there are clearly duplicate titles, then as a reader/reviewer would be helpful to know which ones are already closed as duplicates so you can either:   Use the remaining open questions to focus on which of those is the canonical answer to close this with. Use the closed questions to find the canonical answer (which failed for me with my route of clicks).
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I see more and more exact duplicates on SO. Instead of being merged they are being simply closed. I think this is very big disservice to SO. Why don't moderators merge duplicates? Why don't owners of the site do anything about this?  EDIT  It's disservice because this way we have more and more junk. Duplicates are duplicates and should be merged so that information in in one place.     If the duplicate has no answers then there is no benefit to merging.   Of course there is. You don't need to waste your time with dupes.     It also means that the search routes to the main question are   diminished which makes the posting of new duplicates more likely   There's easy solution for this which I gave in  back in march.     If both questions have answers that have been accepted, which one   should be unaccpeted?   There are plenty of solutions. You accept most voted accepted answer or the first accepted answer or both (I think this is be the best). Yes, there will be possibility of many accepted answers to one question. So what?     When a question is closed as a duplicate, there is a link to the   duplicate question. What more do you want?   I don't want yet another link. I want to have all answers to some problem in one place. Is this that hard? Isn't this natural expectaion?     Removal of the question means that the text in it is no longer searchable - that's a disservice.   See my answer above to Scrooge's comment.
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What's the right course of action for cross-site duplicates?  There are two flavors:   A question is posted which belongs on another site and ends up already having been asked there. I can't find an example right now, but it's bound to happen soon if it hasn't already. The same question is posted in two places at the same time. Take  for example, which is a duplicate of , posted within a half hour of each other by the same user.   Possible actions:   Move it to the proper site and close it once it gets there as a duplicate. Provide a way to close it right away as a cross-site duplicate, without moving it first. Flag it and let a moderator merge them. Close it as "no longer relevant" or something else.   Additionally, flavor 2 is a bit of a special case; perhaps the question really spans both sites in terms of content and intended audience. Should multiple-postings in this case be allowed? If so, should they somehow be linked to each other? If not, how do we avoid a migration war?
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Our website is new and the name is similar (only one letter different than another website) completely different type and company though.  searching for xxxxxA works OK in Google and we find relatively good results.  However searching xxxxxA.com finds results for the other website and gives us the following options:  Showing results for xxxxxE.com Search instead for xxxxxA.com (hyperlink when clicked then it is correctly searching for our site)   Questions:   Do we need to contact Google to correct this and if yes how ? if not will it be corrected automatically when the site becomes more popular and what is the process?  How do we make the process quicker?
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How, within any one of the Stack Exchange sites, or from the Stack Exchange site itself, do I search and find the link to a Stack Exchange site by title, versus by content of the questions inside those sites? Specifically, the end result of the search should not return links to particular questions in that site, but only to the links to the "top" of the site such as .  This is not the same as . That is a different (albeit quite useful) use case from this one.
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The questions  and  were both marked as duplicates.   However, one of them has a different "marked as duplicate" notice below from the other. The first says "This question was marked as an exact duplicate of an existing question",  and the other one says "This question has been asked before and already has an answer".   I thought that maybe the messages were different because one of the questions is mine and the other one isn't as explained at , so I logged out and saw that there were still two different messages:            There are two differences that I noticed. First of all, the first one was closed by someone who had a gold badge in one of the question's tags, whereas the other one was closed by five normal users. Second of all, the first closure is much more recent than the other one. Is the reason to the different wording one of these? Or is there another reason?  Why are there two different duplicate notices? What is the difference between them?  This is not a duplicate of , as that question asks about the link to the target question above, while mine asks about the "marked as duplicate" notice below.
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The alignment of items in the block Questions that may already have your answer is weird. The first question score is shown before the question and subsequent question and scores doesn't match. Here is a screenshot:     Right now, I'm using Chrome Version 28.0.1500.95 m, but it looks the same on Internet Explorer. Reproduced on Firefox 22.0  Edit: Stack Overflow looks normal.
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Questions that are duplicates and triplicates are still asked, even though the automatic "Related Questions" list that appears must be showing them!  These re-asked questions still get upvotes even after a question has been closed as a duplicate. To further discourage the questions, perhaps prevent upvotes to them after they've been closed? Or transfer the upvotes to the master (canonical or original)?  Also, this might help meta question .
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I am just .   I checked  and  but can't figure out why. I also checked  and I think I understand that it can be awarded to multiple answers to the same question.   But the same answer? Why?
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I thought that this question  was a duplicate (sorry, as a noob meta user I can only post one link, please follow my comment on that question), but other folks don't seem to agree.  If two questions are phrased differently, but describe the same underlying problem (and therefore have the same answers) are they not same question?  Thanks, from a puzzled Binary Worrier :(  Related:
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Lots of questions are very generic, &quot;share an experience&quot; kinds of questions. In these cases, I am quite often interested in specific answers that may not have gotten that many upvotes. These questions also tend to elicit lots of responses, so going back to find the answers I'm interested in somewhere in the middle of a sea of responses is a pain. Is there a way to favorite or bookmark these answers?
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I have a favourite canonical question for PDO problems,   It's been used many dozens of times, as the "linked" column on that question shows. In fact, there are so many entries that a "see more linked questions..." link appears.  However, the  page shows only three links, because the url: search pattern is ignoring links in comments.  This doesn't make sense. Can this be fixed?  Also, I notice the links in the comments are all in the   https://stackoverflow.com/q/3726505/   format, while the URL search filter on the "see more..." page, by default, looks for  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3726505/*   if comments were included here, they would be ignored anyway. Shouldn't the pattern rather be  https://stackoverflow.com/q*/3726505/*    ?
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before :         after :        This is confusing. This is two different designs for the same thing. To sum the changes up:   Different banner on top of the post. Before: banner pushed as part of post contents and can be edited.   Worth to mention the "marked as duplicate by ..." message in the bottom is the same.  Suggested fix: simply run a script that within the same transaction Reopens all questions closed as duplicates before Feb 7th 2013 then closes them again as exact duplicates. If possible prevent this from bumping the question i.e. don't update the "last activity" time stamp.
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If I were in danger of being banned from asking questions, I'd be advised:     ... Also, edit your previous questions to improve formatting and clarity.   It happened to me, very recently. At the time, I only had three questions here on Meta SE. To quote Shog:     That's one positively-received question, followed by two duplicates - the last downvoted and deleted.   How do I improve a question marked as a duplicate?   Rewrite it to something else? Maybe that's gaming the system but at least its a way out. Rewrite it so that it is better than its predecessor? At least then it can maybe serve as a useful landing spot for a search engine result where the search terms matched it rather than the original. Get into the time machine, go back to just before posting the duplicate, do a better job of searching for alternate wordings of the question, then not post it? The only problem being, the Stack Exchange's search engine is, how to put it, far from perfect. Oh yes, and the time machine thing. Forget about it improving "duplicates" -- focus on improving deleted questions instead? How do I manage that?   Please, rethink the way you handle question banning warnings.
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There's a new popup helping you with searching, but one of the hints is wrong:    Searching for  will return answers as well as questions, and it's not the number of (up/down)votes which counts, it's the score. Better would be "posts with a score of 3 or higher" or "questions and answers with a score of 3 or higher".
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My feed shows questions from all SE sites, most of which are irrelevant to me.  I'm interested in physics, math, and programming, topics I find served well by the SE model.  There are many SE communities I have no interest in and even get annoyed when I see the kinds of questions and answers posted (ie, opinion based answers that are passed off as truths).    It would be much better if I could manually add each site I'd like to see questions from.