On 30 November 2015 at 13:01, Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org wrote:
Hi!
But it's not what I searched for. What I searched for was neuritis. Is neuritis the same as neuropathy? I dunno, I'm a random reader. Is this a good search result to click on? No idea.
What I'd love for us to do is run an A/B test with two conditions:
- Users who search for a term which redirects to an article get the
current experience (control) 2. Users who search for a term which redirects to an article get the article title in the search results claiming to be the redirect title (test)
I bet this would really improve the clickthrough rate for this class of searches. It would definitely improve the UX.
Sometimes I when I look for redirect, like "Obamma", I get this:
Barack Obama (redirect from Obamma)
Which seems to be the best way of presenting it, it both says what I looked for (even if it's wrong) and what I actually should have looked for (which is educational). Maybe it should show that always if it's redirect-driven?
Seems like it.
-- Stas Malyshev smalyshev@wikimedia.org
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