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 ![Bloodhound (dog)](./bloodhound.jpg)
 
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+![https://travis-ci.org/bitemyapp/bloodhound.svg](https://travis-ci.org/bitemyapp/bloodhound)
 
-[<https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/bloodhound.svg?style=flat>](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bloodhound/)
+![https://img.shields.io/hackage/v/bloodhound.svg?style=flat](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/bloodhound/)
 
 Elasticsearch client and query DSL for Haskell
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