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. > -- > Stas Malyshev > [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > discovery mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery -- Oliver Keyes Count Logula Wikimedia Foundation _______________________________________________ discovery mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/discovery
