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Python API for Glassdoor.com
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If company name search returns more search #4

Closed pritish5699 closed 10 years ago

pritish5699 commented 11 years ago

If you search Best Buy, it returns almost 8 companies. Because of that this API won;t be able to find specific result for the company. Is there any solution for this?

mekarpeles commented 11 years ago

This problem deals with entity resolution. Results can be returned as tuples of (match_name, confidence) where confidence is the edit distance or some other comparable metric. Especially since we don't have control of an exhaustive list of glassdoor's data directly, performing automatic resolution without false positives is a challenge.

mekarpeles commented 10 years ago

This should be partially resolved with the "Exact Match" feature that Nick @nrjones8 and I pushed, assuming the first recommended suggestion has an "exact match" pill.