Will surely take note for next time. Thanks! Now that we've got the results from this test, we will soon update the app to use *only* morelike suggestions, which means you'll be getting twice as many morelike queries from the app as before. (We'll let you know when that's released)
On Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 4:17 PM, Oliver Keyes <[email protected]> wrote: > This is fantastic work to see! > > For future work around this stuff, can I ask that you keep us in the > loop? When you build a feature like this, users get more things - and > search gets more queries, some that succeed and some but fail. But for > this email at the tail-end of the test we wouldn't know this was > happening, and it has the potential to mess with some of our core > KPIs. > > On 29 July 2015 at 16:01, Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> wrote: > > moving to mobile-l, and cc Search & Discovery. > > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > > From: Dmitry Brant <[email protected]> > > Date: Wed, Jul 29, 2015 at 3:38 PM > > Subject: "Morelike" suggestions - the results are in! > > To: Internal communication for WMF Reading team > > <[email protected]> > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > For the last few weeks, we've had an A/B test in the Android app where we > > measure user engagement with the "read more" suggestions that we show at > the > > bottom of each article. We display three suggestions for further reading, > > based on either (A) a plain full-text search query based on the title of > the > > current article, or (B) a query using the "morelike" feature in > > CirrusSearch. > > > > And the winner is... (perhaps not entirely surprisingly) "morelike"! > Users > > who saw suggestions based on "morelike" were over 20% more likely to > click > > on one of the suggestions. > > > > Here's a quick analysis and chart of the data from the last 10 days: > > > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1BFsrAcPgexQyNVemmJ3k3IX5rtPvJ_5vdYOyGgS5R6Y/edit?usp=sharing > > > > > > -Dmitry > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Wikimedia-search mailing list > > [email protected] > > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-search > > > > > > -- > Oliver Keyes > Research Analyst > Wikimedia Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Mobile-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/mobile-l >
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