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Should this CW post be renamed?

I have encountered several questions that ask for "desktop recording tools". The most recent is here. There is already a CW answer, here, but it comes under the name of "screencast", which personally, as a non-native English speaker - and having lived in the UK for 5 years - is an unknown word to me. And it could also be a less intuitive word for native English speakers, and particularly for noobs (see below).

Now, a quick internal search does not bring up the aforementioned post under the "relevance" tab (the default one) until the second page, using 50 items per page. I comes first if the tab "votes" is selected, but the truth is that if you are noob enough not to solve this problem using google (which first result is the CW post), they will never find it using AU internal search.

Even more dramatic, if you want to ask a new question, the CW post does not come up at all under the "Questions that may already have your answer" list. I show this below, writing perhaps the most noob title. Please test it yourself if in doubt.

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So, clearly that CW post is not being reached by those who needed the most.

How can we change this? Can we change the title, tags, wording, or anything to make it the top post in the "relevance" AU search page, and, even more importantly, in the related questions' list?

I'm sure some of you know how the search system and suggested questions work in order to solve this.

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