# Finding Duplicates: Match Options and Filters | Dedupely > Duplicate Searches, match options, Similar Words and filters: how Dedupely decides two records are the same, and how you review every match before merging. - URL: https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/finding-duplicates - Section: knowledge-base - Site index: https://dedupe.ly/llms.txt - Any page: append `.md` to its URL for this plain-text form --- ## Finding duplicates The match engine: duplicate searches, match options, filters and review. - [Finding Duplicates Configure, filter and run a duplicate search in Dedupely, then review everything it found before a single record merges. The walkthrough, step by step.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/find-duplicates) - [Duplicate Searches (Prev. Search Pads) How to use Duplicate Searches in Dedupely to define match criteria, filter a scan, and manage duplicate detection across all of your connected CRM data.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/search-pads) - [Dedupely Intelligence: AI Duplicate Matching Dedupely Intelligence is AI duplicate matching for Contacts, Companies and Leads: no match settings to build, and your CRM records never reach an AI model.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/dedupely-intelligence) - [Match Options Exact, Similar, Fuzzy, Similar Words and Domain Root: what each match option does, when to reach for it, and how to build match logic that fits your CRM.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/match-options) - [Filters Use filters to control which records a duplicate search scans and shows, so you target one segment at a time and cut false positives before anything merges.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/filters) - [Manual Review Manual Review isolates the duplicate sets you are unsure about in a queue of their own, so a bulk merge keeps moving while you decide on the hard ones.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/manual-review) - [Rejected Matches Dismiss a set that is not a duplicate and Dedupely stops showing it, in this search and in every future one, so the same false positive never comes back.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/rejected-matches) - [Excluded Matches Excluded Matches keeps edge cases and known noise out of every duplicate search, so the same false positives stop coming back each time that you run one.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/excluded-matches) - [Auto Match Auto Match scans your CRM in the background and tells you when new duplicates appear, so a search you already built keeps finding them without a rerun.](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/auto-match) ### Still stuck? - Need help? [Talk to support](https://dedupe.ly/contact) - Questions about plans? [Book a Zoom with sales](https://meetings.dedupe.ly/meetings/hampus-isaksson/dedupely-zoom-schedule) - Reading this with a model? [Read this page as Markdown](https://dedupe.ly/knowledge-base/finding-duplicates.md) - Feeding it the whole site? [Read llms.txt](https://dedupe.ly/llms.txt) ### Get started for free 20 free trial merges and as much free support as you need to get your duplicates under control. [Talk to sales](https://meetings.dedupe.ly/meetings/hampus-isaksson/dedupely-zoom-schedule)[Try for free](https://v2.app.dedupe.ly/signup) [Or sign up with Google](https://v2.app.dedupe.ly/signup/google) Running CRM cleanup for clients? [See the Partner Program](https://dedupe.ly/become-a-partner) Skip to content [New Dedupely Intelligence AI deduplication that finds what your rules miss.](https://dedupe.ly/ai-deduplication)