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RiderOfGiraffes on Jan 4, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Please tell us what features you'd like in news.yc...

Please consider enhanced duplicate detection as outlined and discussed here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1012215

Simply compare the "title" field of the referenced page. If it matches, perhaps compare the domain name, ignoring any "www". Or perhaps not bother. The number of occasions the title matches when the page is different should be sufficiently small.

alanthonyc on Jan 8, 2010 [–]

On a related note: somebody else suggested the ability to merge duplicates.

tvon on Jan 9, 2010 | [–]

Yeah, trying to prevent duplicates is an impossible battle.

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