# Improving discovery of "your topic is similar to" relevance search

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-your-topic-is-similar-to-relevance-search/35220>\
**Category:** UX\
**Created:** [11월 3, 2015, 4:00오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-your-topic-is-similar-to-relevance-search/35220 "2015-11-03T16:00:24Z")\
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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:** [11월 4, 2015, 2:37오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-your-topic-is-similar-to-relevance-search/35220/4 "2015-11-04T02:37:52Z")

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It is tricky because on the one hand, you have to do _something_ to ensure that people searched before creating a new, duplicate topic. And unfortunately, relevance through searches is a super hard problem.

Contrary to @sam’s observations I have had positive results when creating a new topic and getting a duplicate topic search hit from the “your topic is similar to” panel. Others have reported positive results on Twitter as well if you browse the @discourse Twitter account.

My problem is **I rarely create new topics in the first place** , and on the rare occasion that I do, I know they are guaranteed to be new topics, not duplicates. Probably the same for Sam. To be honest this is a feature for your, uh, “less experienced” users.

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