Yang's Yahoo comeback plan

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http://valleywag.com/355175/yangs-secret-plan-for-a-yahoo-comeback

[daniel-cussen]

...which we are now going to tell everyone.

In headlines, "Secret" is not only contradictory, but weasely way to attract attention.

[gscott]

Buy Google Adword ads to drive traffic to Yahoo offerings.

[alaskamiller → gscott]

buy low cost google ads to link to high cost yahoo ads.

ppc arbitrage will float the company back to glory.

[johnrob]

How many times are they going to 'fix' monetization? This starts to sound like a broken record...

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why did the word secret get removed from the title of my post? I just re-worded the title of the linked article.

Is Hacker News censoring stories now, for no good reason?

[pg → Readmore]

We try to undo most of the misleading tricks lower-end journalists use to tart up headlines. In fact, "Exclusive" and "Breaking" get trimmed off automatically.

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I would hardly call Valleywag a lower-end publication. I mean they have at least 3 stories about bay area escort services on the front page today. ;)

[ivankirigin → Readmore]

That's how they power their back ends

[dpapathanasiou → Readmore]

It's not new: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43534

[Readmore → dpapathanasiou]

Ah ha! Thanks for the link.

[eusman → Readmore]

they've been changing titles for quite some time when they believe its necessary, almost since the beggining