On 30 November 2015 at 13:01, Stas Malyshev <[email protected]> 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?
>

Seems like it.

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