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Perhaps SO could include the titles of questions marked as duplicate somewhere in the markup so that Google indexes it?

• icebraining 9y ago
  Which is exactly what they do: Should duplicates be deleted? In general, no: most duplicates stay around. Having multiple copies of the same question with different wording is useful as search fodder, because people looking for an answer may use different wording too. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-duplicate-questions-be-handled https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10841/how-should-du...
  • fragsworth 9y ago
    That's good to see that they actually have the right rules, but I've used it many times where my questions were closed simply for appearing similar to others (when I did not even find the others in my search results). I suppose the mods can be overzealous.
    • icebraining 9y ago
      Being closed is not the same as being deleted.