Google backtracks on search results design

Re:Google backtracks on search results design by baddox on Friday January 24, 2020 @10:54PM (#22144540)

I’ve been on the test for this design since October 4, 2019, so I’ve actually gotten used to it! But it’s probably a good thing for them to backtrack. I wonder what went wrong in their clearly lengthy experiment about how this would perform.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by agloeregrets on Saturday January 25, 2020 @07:37AM (#22146008)

This design is very successful technically for them and I’m sure it increased Ad click through.

The issue was cultural. The articles saying “okay this is too far on making Ads hard to see” and the super hilariously ironic fact that they launched this on the exact day that Basecamp went in front of congress to explain how Google is abusing running ads on trademarks, where this design make it much much worse.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by tiles on Saturday January 25, 2020 @01:27AM (#22145079)

How did you remember the precise date? Impressed.

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by baddox on Saturday January 25, 2020 @02:06AM (#22145177)

Searchable Slack logs :)

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Re:Google backtracks on search results design by t223 on Friday January 24, 2020 @11:40PM (#22144730)

Someone was better at persuasion than engineering and got approval to put it into production, ignoring potentially negative A/B test results or flawed feedback methodology.

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