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Major news outlets have turned gaming social sites into a huge business - years ago it was revealed HuffPo A/B tested their headlines based on how much traffic
by benologist 13y ago
Major news outlets have turned gaming social sites into a huge business - years ago it was revealed HuffPo A/B tested their headlines based on how much traffic they pull. These days I suspect that's entirely standard but even if the tech rags are still lagging behind you can see them desperately pandering for pageviews pretty transparently - like Ars syndicating StackOverflow, or the sheer volume of viral-hit-or-miss garbage that AOL's giant content farm spews out across their network (eg 39 x iPhone 5c/s articles between just TechCrunch and Engadget since being announced!).
Business Insider uses Optimizely to optimize the stream of pure shit they emit.
- gruseom 13y agoHave you ever thought about turning your anti-spam passion into a startup?
- X4 13y agoyes, I'm working on a project, that I don't know the outcome of yet to be honest.
- gruseom 13y agoMy question is addressed to benologist. He is something of an expert on this subject.
- benologist 13y agoIt may transition into that, it's definitely something I enjoy studying and revealing for the last half decade heh. There's a market for something better than CAPTCHA.
- X4 13y agoYou're totally right, the people lag behind because we haven't given them the tools to circumvent our social firewall more easily and automatically with data-mining tools. That has always been the case and a traitor will do it with a shrug one day, Be it government sponsored or corporately financed, this will force us to switch and adapt to the new problem of automated, targeted and individualized desinformation platforms. We need new solutions to this today.