# 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:** [Février 1, 2016, 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:** ![alehandrof](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alehandrof/32/119526_2.png) [@alehandrof](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alehandrof)\
**Post date:** [Octobre 8, 2018, 9:14 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/changing-the-default-sort-by-setting-for-search/38847/9 "2018-10-08T09:14:10Z")

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> [@codinghorror](#):
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> 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.

We are a private community and don’t care about SEO. The root cause is have repeating events with the same title. For example, we have a lot of topics like this: “XYZ (October 2018”).

I understand that we’re a niche case. But it would be helpful to have the option for just such niche cases.

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