Punchfork Uses Facebook Shares To Help Sort Recipes

Looking for a good recipe for the big holiday? Find the best one using Punchfork, which ranks recipes based on Facebook shares.

Looking for a good recipe for Easter or Passover? Punchfork’s ingredients for ranking its database of recipes include data from Facebook, Twitter, and StumbleUpon.

Punchfork has a database of searchable recipes and ranks them by how often they have been shared and talked about on the web. The site shared with us its own recipe for content:

  • Social data: Punchfork uses real-time data like tweets and Facebook shares to measure which recipes are grabbing the attention of users.
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