Search for Duplicates with different titles

Some of us ill organized users have thousands and even tens of thousands of pictures scanned in from old albums, 35mm slides, and shoe boxes full of loose pictures. The result is many duplicates with different names. In Elements one could search on 'similar photos' or some such nomenclature and it did fairly good. How is it possible that an organizer in Photoshop Elements can have a superior tagging and search system to that in lightroom. I realize Lightroom does a lot more, but you have come so close to the good things in Elements why not include them in version 1.2?
I asked about this in the forum and got some good answers, but basically told if I want to search on photo based color data, I need to use a program other than Adobe. Hope Adobe fixes that, it would be a great service to lots of us dis- or ill- organized people.
I love Lightroom, but sure hope for some real improvements. Talk to your buddies in Elements.
Jack

here is one way to find all matches first and then you can add a fine search/separation if there is more than one match
depending on the size of the sorted array it might be faster if you search for the first match and than look if the next still matches ...
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