That said, despite curation’s advantages the two biggest content players of all — Google and Facebook — are pure algorithmic plays. Google News has always been algorithmically driven, but the more important tool for content is Google search itself, which uses the most valuable algorithm in the world to not only find content but to rank it as well.... See more

X just open-sourced the code for the “For You” algorithm Everything you need to know in 1 tweet and 1 image: 1. The Raw Inputs (Data) Everything starts with three big buckets of data: - Social graph → who you follow, who follows you,... See more