What trials unite not only Harry Potter or Frodo Baggins but many of literature’s most interesting heroes? And what do ordinary people have in common with these literary heroes? Matthew Winkler takes us step-by-step through the crucial events that make or break a hero.
Your News Feed is made up of stories from your friends, Pages you’ve chosen to follow and groups you’ve joined. Ranking is the process we use to organize all of those stories so that you can see the most relevant content at the top, every time you open Facebook.
Ranking has four elements: the available inventory of stories; the signals, or data points that can inform ranking decisions; the predictions we make, including how likely we think you are to comment on a story, share with a friend, etc; and a relevancy score for each story. In the video above, I’ll walk you through how it all comes together.
Facebook News Feed, first introduced in 2006, highlight information that includes profile changes, upcoming events, and birthdays, among other updates. Using a proprietary method, Facebook selects a handful of updates to show users every time they visit their feed, out of an average of a few thousand updates they can potentially receive.
The life span of a Google query is less then 1/2 second, and involves quite a few steps before you see the most relevant results. Here’s how it all works. (more info on Google)
Let’s shape it into a strategy, a story, and real-world results.