# Changing the default 'sort by' setting for search

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [2016 年 2 月 1 日午後 8:13 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847 "2016-02-01T20:13:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)\
**Post date:** [2018 年 10 月 2 日午後 8:09 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847/8 "2018-10-02T20:09:47Z")

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> [@alehandrof](#):
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> because we have a lot of similarly named topics, it would help with retrieval.

Google and other webcrawlers will struggle with this as well, I strongly suggest you should fix the root cause here and have more uniquely named topics.

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