"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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"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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