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Back when I worked at a comparison shopping engine, I had a bit of a laugh when I saw that the indexing pipeline was generating error messages because the "clea

Back when I worked at a comparison shopping engine, I had a bit of a laugh when I saw that the indexing pipeline was generating error messages because the "clean" function returned empty for some products in the feed from Amazon, because they had names like "++++++". It was usually musical albums that liked to have names that made it impossible for fans to find the music.

kps 6y ago
In another era, “+++ATH” would have been a good name.
KineticLensman 6y ago
> Musical albums that liked to have names The band 'Audiobooks' has taken this to the next level
- bigiain 6y ago
  Anyone else remember "The The"? (Or for a more modern example "!!!")
- sandos 6y ago
  I like the band A. When I try to find their music though... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(band) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_(band)