Straight Talk · NPCLocal
Dental searches won't send you to a tow truck anymore.
The tool that sorts searches was messed up, sending folks to the wrong place.
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By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice · 1 min read
Our tool that reads search queries and figures out what service people are looking for had a bug. When it processed a search pattern, it was turning a special character into a backspace. That meant every search pattern matched nothing. Robstown was putting people who searched for a dentist in the towing category.
We rewrote how the search pattern works. The searches work. Robstown no longer thinks someone searching for a dentist is searching for a tow truck.
This is the kind of bug that's invisible unless you know to look for it. The tool ran, it didn't crash, it just gave wrong answers. We caught it because the numbers didn't make sense.
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