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Wow, I wondered if that was what happened. Someone should crawl the site to collect other examples of this at Quartz. It would be a fascinating study of linkbai
by montrose 9y ago
Wow, I wondered if that was what happened. Someone should crawl the site to collect other examples of this at Quartz. It would be a fascinating study of linkbait being formed.
- heynk 9y agoMost media companies seem to do automated headline testing. It would be awesome if someone made a crawler that somehow tracked this, and could determine what the 'winning' headlines were.
- dang 9y agoSo many sites do this that we often take the URL as an alternative to the article headline. Major press do it too. Sometimes they at least have the good sense to put the better phrasing in the HTML doc title too. That way we don't have to dehyphenate it.