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

Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by alayne on Friday May 07, 2010 @09:46AM (#1327532)

Well, I'm losing my religion. I already have a Greasemonkey script to stop the fading top row. Look at the results page for "cat toys" in Bing and Google. Maybe Google should just redirect to Bing.

I get that they're trying to satisfy a diverse user base and drive UI changes from testing, but it sure came out ugly.

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by thorax on Friday May 07, 2010 @11:38AM (#1327853)

Yeah, what struck me was that if style was your differentiator for using Google versus Bing, you just lost your motivation to stick with Google.

Some examples:

Bing's style: http://www.bing.com/search?q=mortgage

New Google style: http://www.google.com/search?q=mortgage

Compare to the old google look: http://www.darrinward.com/img/articles/screenshot-google-sea...

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by puredemo on Sunday May 09, 2010 @07:51AM (#1331870)

Excellent post. I had no idea how similar the Bing and Google result pages are now. What is up with that? It couldn't have been unintentional, could it?

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Re:Tell HN: New Google homepage, A/B testing gone crazy. by Khaki on Friday May 07, 2010 @10:12AM (#1327611)

The results seem pretty much the same to me.

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