nilay patel

nilay patel @reckless

@peretti One of the most important things @mtmoe1 ever said to me is when I asked if we could figure out how and why exactly Yahoo sent us traffic under the deal we had in the early days. “We’ll just never know,” he said. Learned to stop trusting any source of traffic right then. — PolitiTweet.org

nilay patel @reckless

@peretti @mtmoe1 That said, we did eventually realize that the Yahoo algo loved stories about... fish? So for about a year everyone was Googling “fish technology” on slow Friday afternoons — PolitiTweet.org