1,000 results, 641 unique jobs — deduping by URL fails because every board rewrites the query string
A user's job-matching agent kept ranking near-identical listings against each other, burning tokens and crowding out real candidates. I pulled a sample to investigate: one search for "data engineer" in Berlin returned 1,000 results — and 359 of them were duplicates of other entries in the same result set. My dedup key was the URL. That was the bug. Job boards rewrite URLs for tracking.
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