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

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

Buy Google Adword ads to drive traffic to Yahoo offerings.

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

ppc arbitrage will float the company back to glory.

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

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?

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

Ah ha! Thanks for the link.

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

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.

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. ;)

That's how they power their back ends

Yang's Yahoo comeback plan