A week or so ago, Facebook announced changes to the news feed algorithm, trying to surface better shared content to users.
Facebook said they have made an “update to News Feed ranking recognizes that people want to see more relevant news and what their friends have to say about it.” They want more relevant items in the feed to show up, and fresher comments as well.
AllThingsD equated this to the likes of Google’s Panda algorithm.
Peter from AllThingsD interviewed the News Feed manager Lars Backstrom at Facebook. He asked him about Panda, in which Lars responded:
The funny thing is Matt Cutts tweeted it:
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Image credit to BigStockPhoto for Panda
