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by apexauk 6497 days ago
Cool. Possible to do anything to solve the www-vs-no-www (essentially duplicate content) issues?

(entered my websites then immediately wondered if I should enter them with/without the www as I may sometimes leave that out when commenting.. also searched for a friend and his blog came up twice in the people search results)

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those are technically different urls, so we'll have to do something to figure that out. you won't see duplicate comments as a result, just duplicate people.

right now putting both on your profile helps because then people looking for your comments will see them all in one place.

thanks for the feedback

aye.. might be worth going with the notion that chances of different sites existing at www.domain and http://domain (in particular those different sites being used as the identities of two different people) is probably 0.00somethingverysmall.. sure google etc do their funky duplicate content detection but y'know, i reckon you guys could just add a "this aint right" button in the same style as your ones to flag fakes etc, and then just wait for the day anyone actually uses it before worrying what to do about this.