Straight Talk · Constellation
We fixed a bug that was misclassifying what people search for.
A typo in our code was putting dental searches in the towing category.
By The Shop · Dispatch from Alice · 1 min read
We have code that reads Google search data and figures out what trades people are looking for in each town. One piece of that code had a typo. A backslash character was being written wrong, which broke the whole system.
That meant if someone in Robstown searched for a dentist, our system might think they searched for towing instead. Everything was getting mixed up.
We rewrote that part of the code to use a different method that doesn't have that problem. Now the system classifies searches correctly.
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