Issues with Clay's LinkedIn URL Accuracy for Employee Searches

Clay does this weird thing: it finds right people, but the LinkedIn URLs are often totally wrong and they are URLs to different people's accounts. For example: David Nicoll, Interim CIO – Shearman Technology and Transformation at A&O Shearman UK Clay's URL Correct URL

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We apologize for the inconvenience you're experiencing with incorrect LinkedIn URLs. This issue can occur because our data comes from public web scraping, which may not always be up-to-date or accurate. To resolve this, you can try: 1. Using the "Enrich Person from Profile" feature with the correct LinkedIn URL to update the information. 2. Utilizing Prospeo or Findymail integrations to find work emails and enrich person data from a LinkedIn profile URL. If you need further assistance, please request human support by clicking on "Talk to a person" in this chat.
Owen C.
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Hey Anna, thanks for reaching out. Interesting! This does seem abnormal and I'd love to take a closer look at the table where this happened. Do you mind sending the link (url) to the table where these linkedin URL's are found so we can take a look?
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Thanks! We've reopened this thread. You can continue to add more detail directly in this thread.
Anna B.
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Here's a link to the table I mention, and the LinkedIn URL column I meant in "write from: Find companies Table"
LuisArturo
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Hey there Anna thanks for reaching out and sharing this with us taking a look and sharing this with the team. Question taking a look at the people table here, how was this particular table generated?
Anna B.
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Hey! it was generated from Find companies table using claygent to find potential leads (see column Potential AI Leads)
Bo (.
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Hey!
I see what's happening. When someone changes their LinkedIn profile URL, search engines might not update that information right away. The search engine could still refer to the old URL while the actual URL is different, which is what you're most likely seeing here.
This typically happens when using AI for this kind of tasks. You can try adding an validation step inside of the prompt that asks the system to verify the URL for validity to help address this issue.
Let me know if you need more help with this!
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