"Are titles being chosen simply to maximize click rates?"
I was under the impression that the editors usually choose four or five different titles, and then after the first few thousand impressions the software chooses the one that does the best to become the permanent title.
Apropos of this, a cool hack is that the more days in a row you click on an item in Amazon the cheaper it gets. So if you want to save an extra 10% on something, just click it once a day for a week or so until the price goes down. (After a certain point though it starts going back up again, so you have to time it right.)
Straying a bit from the original topic: For amazon price tracking I've used this and it's pretty good: http://camelcamelcamel.com/ (They apparently cover some other retailers too.)
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Why are article titles on the web so disconnected from the contents of the posts ?
This title to me meant "Scientists are complaining that greater availability of data is making it harder to do research."
Instead it turns out the post is about scientists losing data due to not having places/formats for storing it.
I have trouble understanding how someone thought this was a good title for this post. Are titles being chosen simply to maximize click rates ?
"Are titles being chosen simply to maximize click rates?"
I was under the impression that the editors usually choose four or five different titles, and then after the first few thousand impressions the software chooses the one that does the best to become the permanent title.
Apropos of this, a cool hack is that the more days in a row you click on an item in Amazon the cheaper it gets. So if you want to save an extra 10% on something, just click it once a day for a week or so until the price goes down. (After a certain point though it starts going back up again, so you have to time it right.)
Straying a bit from the original topic: For amazon price tracking I've used this and it's pretty good: http://camelcamelcamel.com/ (They apparently cover some other retailers too.)
Glad you like it (I'm the author.)