fix(places): stop the place titles doubling the brand

Every place page shipped as 'Schools in Brentwood - Compare 27 Schools |
schoolcompare | schoolcompare'. The root layout's title template appends
'| schoolcompare' to any plain-string title, and all four place routes already
carried the brand. W8 opted the other routes out with an absolute title; the
place routes were written afterwards and did not inherit the lesson.

~2,600 titles affected, and the repetition pushed them past Google's
truncation point, so the doubled brand displaced real words in the result.

An e2e journey now asserts no title repeats the brand, across the static
routes and a place page, so this cannot come back on a route added later.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_015mWQnpye9F299NVRCCSRvj
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@@ -1868,3 +1868,20 @@ test('phase variants are submitted in the places sitemap', async ({ page }) => {
const xml = await (await page.request.get('/sitemaps/places-1.xml')).text();
expect(xml).toMatch(/\/schools\/[a-z0-9-]+\/primary</);
});
test('no page title repeats the brand', async ({ page }) => {
// The root layout appends '| schoolcompare' to a plain-string title. Any
// route whose title already carries the brand must opt out with
// `absolute`, or it ships '... | schoolcompare | schoolcompare' — which is
// how ~2,600 place pages first went out.
const res = await page.request.get('/api/places');
const { places } = await res.json();
const town = places.find((p: { kind: string }) => p.kind === 'town');
for (const path of ['/', '/rankings', '/admissions', `/schools/${town.slug}`]) {
await page.goto(path);
const title = await page.title();
const brands = (title.match(/schoolcompare/gi) ?? []).length;
expect(brands, `${path} repeats the brand: ${title}`).toBeLessThanOrEqual(1);
}
});