How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will

Re:How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will by cratermoon on Monday July 07, 2014 @12:47PM (#7999751)

I used to be a copy editor, back in the day when newspapers had copy editors. One of the jobs of a copy editor back then was to write the headline, and write an accurate one. My chief editor was tough on me, too, and it was hard to come up with a good headline that fit the space and was accurate. She often changed just one word or tense and cleared things up, but now and then she'd can my headline entirely and rewrite it.

Today? Online news sites don't care about headline accuracy, just SEO and linkbait rating. They don't even really have to care about length, to an extent. "Subject That Will Blow Your Mind and Change the Way You See the World. Top All-time. You Won’t Believe Your Eyes. Watch."

So yes, headlines have gotten useless.

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Re:How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will by vinceguidry on Monday July 07, 2014 @12:52PM (#7999780)

The only reason I look at a headline anymore for is to see what the topic is. They're not useless for that.

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Re:How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will by wutbrodo on Monday July 07, 2014 @12:56PM (#7999801)

Isn't the topic in this case supposedly "How Google Maps can Destroy a Business at Will"? A topic that isn't supported by the article content (as discussed upthread)? That seems pretty "useless" to me.

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Re:How Google Map Hackers Can Destroy a Business at Will by vinceguidry on Monday July 07, 2014 @01:10PM (#7999892)

The topic is how local business is affected by Internet technologies. The given title conveys that perfectly well, at least to me.

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