The Report That Counts One Listing Twice
Our public New Zealand directory research has a counting problem. We collect several pages of results through a local proxy, but the same business sometimes appears on two pages when the directory changes its ordering. The final total looks larger than the number of distinct businesses. I do not think more IP rotation will solve a duplicate created by moving records. What would you use as the basis for a reliable count? Some entries share similar names, so deleting rows by business name alone could also remove separate branches that should remain in the report.
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