[rozab]

I find the majority of SO questions in search results have been wrongly closed as duplicates

[Retric]

Yep, I generally remove SO from my searches because of how many useless closed as duplicates questions find their way into search results.

If they want to moderate like that fine, just delete the dupe questions.

[ceejayoz]

Dupes have their uses - they do a pretty good job of ensuring a wider variety of Google searches lead to the answer. Basically, a built in “this paragraph is a synonym for this other one”.

[Retric]

That’s really not been my experience. I find the non duplicate question is normally somewhat related but not actually useful, being subtly different or quite old etc.

That said while SO has been effectively useless to me for years, if you find it’s helpful then more power to you.

[dreamcompiler]

The most useful answers I find on SO tend to be marked "closed; off-topic." Thank goodness for the off-topics and the dupes.