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Comment by koolba | Hacker News Reader

Where did the made up title for the HN post come from?

While catchy, that line is neither the title, byline, or even a sentence from the article.

EDIT: Ha! A search for the article shows the original title. So either Bloomberg is feeding clickbait titles purely to Google or they switched it after it went live. New title is "Saudi Aramco Needs to Get Realistic About Its IPO".

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Bloomberg usually has 2 or more titles for it's articles. It's been doing this for at least a decade. It's most pronounced or visible when you use the Bloomberg terminal. You'll notice what they show 1 cohort (terminal users) is usually very different than web users.

I'm guessing it's some sort of long running A/B experiment. They must have great data on how to write attention grabbing headlines.

Tabloid journalism complete with testing clickbait headlines.

The Bloomberg articles are generally garbage, the domain should really get a penalty. They used to be fairly great, but there were some management shifts at Bloomberg News and it never was the same after that.

It's always useful to read the URL, they can change the title but are often reluctant to change the URL :)

It's politics. Iran and Russia against the us and Saudi. The US has been keeping the price of oil low to cripple the other side since they are primarily oil economies.

The attack on saudi oil facilities and tankers, and this sort of whisper campaign, are supposed to put pressure on saudi and drive the price of oil up for Russia and Iran so they can afford more foreign intervention.

"drive the price of oil up for Russia and Iran so they can afford more foreign intervention"

please diversify your sources of propaganda

please, pay attention to the history of iran's actions in the middle east and the long russia-iran-syria alliance. No need to look at propaganda when you know history.

The alliance is since the time of the Greater Armenia and the source of the propaganda that I mentioned is even older. BTW, Iran is not independent for the last few centuries.

Oddly, the HN title is the <title> tag, but not the headline actually shown on the website.

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