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Improvements to Offer Matching

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@nareddyt nareddyt released this 04 May 02:34
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We were facing issues with matching deal or cashback offers on certain sides. Under Armour was one example. This happens due to Google giving us a hostname that isn't fully accurate (for Under Armour, Google gave us the hostname for the business site instead of the retail site).

To resolve this, we added a fallback matching algorithm. If hostname matching doesn't work, the extension tries to match based on the name of the site (which shows up as the title of a Chrome tab).

This has the unintended effect of showing you deals when google searching for retailers! It's not perfect yet, but we're working on improving it. Here's an example of when I google for j. crew:

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