Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy.

Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by mahmud on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:05AM (#1327430)

I have been stuck in an A/B hell myself, there is a fat sidebar to my left that I can't get rid of. Googling for a fix turned up a page saying it was an experiment and will be over soon.

For the last week I have been using Bing.

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by someone_here on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:27AM (#1327480)

http://userscripts.org/scripts/review/76189

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by oneplusone on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:16AM (#1327454)

Delete your cookie for google.com. It drove me nuts too.

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by mahmud on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:26AM (#1327479)

I have some of the most aggressive security settings. And to be sure, I went back and deleted all cookies again. No dice.

Well, this will give me an excuse to sample other search engines. I was a heavy Altavista user until I found this new search engine out of Stanford ..

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by paraschopra on Friday May 07, 2010 @01:36PM (#1328191)

May be they were sampling based on user (you must be logged on?).

While doing such large A/B tests, they should definitely give an option to opt-out. Or at least a prominent feedback button to tell them how bad is their new design. It is as if Google will A/B test a new design and no-one will notice it?

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