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Yaron Galai replied on July 31, 2009 17:32 to the question "Outbrain rating results - avg ratings only, not recommended ratings or people who have rated like me?" in outbrain:

BTW - your site is beautiful!

Yaron Galai replied on July 31, 2009 17:30 to the question "Outbrain rating results - avg ratings only, not recommended ratings or people who have rated like me?" in outbrain:

Hey substudio - 1st - thanks for using the outbrain service!

The 'rated by X people like me' language is part of our score personalization, which is intended to give registered users a slightly better user experience as it tweaks the average based on other like-minded people. However, this only shows up for registered AND logged-in users which is a tiny fraction of the people on the web.

Almost all visitors to your site will see the plain averages that you'd like them to see.

If you want to see the same, simply go to our website - www.outbrain.com - and log off from there. Then all personalization of the scores will go away.

Hope this helps!

A comment on the discussion "not supported on wordpress.com blogs" in outbrain:

Thanks Dilip... we agree! Comments like yours will help WordPress understand this eventually and make us an approved widget... But we have no idea when they will finally do so... :-( – Yaron Galai, on May 23, 2009 12:06

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Yaron Galai replied on May 21, 2009 13:42 to the question "How is the star rating determined?" in outbrain:

Hey Peter - I explained what's going on with the average rating calculations here:
https://getsatisfaction.com/outbrain/t...

Hope this helps clarify.

Yaron Galai set one of Yaron Galai's replies as an official response to "Unwanted Ads showing up with outbrain raitings." in outbrain

Yaron Galai replied on May 20, 2009 11:40 to the question "Unwanted Ads showing up with outbrain raitings." in outbrain:

Hey Drew -

If it's the specific ad that you don't want to show on your site, you can easily zap it by clicking that little red [x] next to it. This works the same for regular and sponsored links. Once you [x] a link, it will not show up again anywhere on your site.
(note that you have to be logged in to outbrain.com in order for the [x]'s to show up)

If you don't want any ads showing up, go to your account settings at outbrain.com (https://www.outbrain.com/ln/ManageBlogs), select your blog, and in 'Sponsored Recommendations' box choose the 2nd option.

Hope this helps!
Yaron

Yaron Galai replied on May 18, 2009 14:05 to the question "Can I ask you a support question in private?" in outbrain:

Absolutely! Drop us a note here: support@outbrain.com and we'll get back to you.

Yaron Galai replied on May 11, 2009 11:13 to the praise "Outbrain is awesome" in outbrain:

Thanks Subby! We debate that often, and will probably eventually do something of this sort. The reason we haven't yet is that we wanted to avoid a Digg-like situation where the whole world tries to manipulate ratings in order to show up on our home page and get traffic. If/when we find clever ways to mitigate that so ratings remain genuine, we will probably add some sort of top-X functionality.

Yaron Galai replied on May 08, 2009 23:48 to the question "I dont ask for promoting other blogs" in outbrain:

Once we resolve the account access question and you log into the dashboard, you can easily change the link setting to stay only within your site. Watch this tutorial (jump to 2:30 min for this specific setting:
https://www.vimeo.com/2430458

Yaron Galai replied on May 08, 2009 10:14 to the praise "Outbrain is awesome" in outbrain:

Yay - we agree!!... ;-)

Thanks Subby! - we'll absolutely keep supporting you guys.

Yaron Galai set one of Kate's replies as an official response to "Most popular / recommendations won't go away" in outbrain

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Yaron Galai replied on April 04, 2009 12:40 to the question "become employee ???" in outbrain:

Sharad hi - We're currently only hiring the best engineers located in Israel. If you qualify, the details on how to submit your resume are available here: https://www.outbrain.com/jobs

Yaron Galai replied on March 31, 2009 13:52 to the question "Recommendations problem" in outbrain:

You need to be registered (https://www.outbrain.com/RegisterPage) and logged in (https://www.outbrain.com/Login) to make that change.
Go to the "Manage Blogs" tab - https://www.outbrain.com/ln/ManageBlogs
Click on the "Settings" link next to your blog's name.
Set your recommendations to "Limited" and the recommended links will be limited to your site only.

Yaron Galai replied on March 28, 2009 12:03 to the praise "ALL HAIL KATE and OUTBRAIN.." in outbrain:

Thanks for the feedback Sharad!! We love supporting bloggers using outbrain!

A comment on the discussion "not supported on wordpress.com blogs" in outbrain:

Thanks Tom!! – Yaron Galai, on February 02, 2009 21:52

Yaron Galai set one of Uriel's replies as an official response to "remove rating widget for specific posts" in outbrain

Yaron Galai marked one of Uriel's replies in outbrain as useful. Uriel replied to the question "remove rating widget for specific posts".

Yaron Galai started following the question "'Most Popular Posts' has blog name besides the post name for one of the suggestions..." in outbrain.