On 30 November 2015 at 13:01, Stas Malyshev <smalyshev(a)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:
1. 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?
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Stas Malyshev
smalyshev(a)wikimedia.org
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