Facebook to measure time spend on pages in clickbait crackdownAugust 26, 2014 - 12:42 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Facebook is hoping to provide more relevant stories on the News Feed by measuring the amount of time users spend on clicked content, Digital Spy said. The aim is to cut back on content that is not always what it seems - also known as clickbait - to lure users on to their sites. "If people click on an article and spend time reading it, it suggests they clicked through to something valuable," Facebook's Khalid El-Arini and Joyce Tang explained in a blog post. "If they click through to a link and then come straight back to Facebook, it suggests that they didn't find something that they wanted. With this update we will start taking into account whether people tend to spend time away from Facebook after clicking a link, or whether they tend to come straight back to News Feed when we rank stories with links in them." Facebook will also factor in likes and comments to decide whether content is worth promoting. The move will undoubtedly affect publishers who use misleading headlines to attract people, the social networked added. Photo: AP Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | The Power of One Dram to benefit Road of Life charity The companies inform that the May beneficiary of The Power of One Dram is the “Road of Life” charitable organization. Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. |