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The dirty world of Facebook EdgeRank Optimization
- nakedrobot2 14y agoFacebook seems to be making it more and more difficult for a user to see just "a feed" with all their friends' activity; instead they optimize things like this and show users only what they think they want to see, and hide everything else.
- rahulroy 14y agoMeanwhile on Google+ https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts/U7UXaTGxVsz https://plus.google.com/+ChrisHadfield/posts/U7UXaTGxVsz
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- mozboz 14y agoNot sure why this particular activity is noteworthy. The 'dirty world' described here is much, much larger. 'Affiliate Marketing' is a very broad activity that involves doing the least possible work to generate a lead or sale for an affiliate for which you will get paid, and this is just an example of that.
- TomGullen 14y agoWe're assuming here that EdgeRank takes outliers into account in a positive way. It's entirely plausible that they work with medians for example.