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Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by brandnewlow on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @10:00AM (#376403)
What else could you apply automated A/B testing to?

Headlines? The images that accompany news stories?

Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by greg on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @11:15AM (#376467)
I wrote the software behind SnapAds. Before that I wrote an optimizer service for web pages that operates on HTML, CSS or Javascript. Check it out at http://demo.genetify.com .

Let me know if there is any interest -- I'd like to open-source the project.

Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by jbyers on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @03:18PM (#376731)
That's awesome. Definitely interested in an open-source version. Let me know if I can help, contact details in my profile.
Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by aneesh on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @02:47PM (#376688)
Good idea. Actually, I think a platform to make A/B testing super-simple for developers (like us!) could be a business in itself.
Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by mtw on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @10:22AM (#376419)
landing pages for user signups, homepages for media websites (nytimes and other big blogs), email campaigns, product promotions and offers or even defining pricing if you do a saas company
Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by 8en on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @11:39AM (#376491)
For landing pages, I'd recommend Google Website Optimizer. It's a pretty sophisticated multivariate testing tool. https://www.google.com/analytics/siteopt/splash?hl=en
Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by jgrahamc on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @11:53AM (#376505)
Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by dangoldin on Wednesday November 26, 2008 @10:01AM (#377655)
The guy who wrote Super Crunchers did the same thing. Drank his own Kool Aid.

http://www.google.com/search?q=super+crunchers&ie=utf-8&...

Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by drusenko on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @09:27PM (#377165)
as a point of clarification, the system greg's built goes much further than simple a/b testing. there are quite a few complications with implementing a genetic algorithm in the real world of constantly shifting preferences.

once done right, it can efficiently optimize millions of permutations with millions of ad impressions (<2000 clicks). more permutations means more chance for improvement, and this just isn't possible with a simple a/b testing solution.

Re:Weebly's SnapAds: Survival Of The Fittest Meets Madison A... by jfarmer on Tuesday November 25, 2008 @01:46PM (#376624)
When I was working on Adonomics I built a system that does this across ad networks, similar to Project Rubicon.