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I doubt they assumed it was better. I expect they did a ton of user testing and found that it was better for most people. And I'm sure it is. HN users are very

I doubt they assumed it was better. I expect they did a ton of user testing and found that it was better for most people. And I'm sure it is. HN users are very much a niche audience these days.

gk1 5y ago
Right. Bing switched to this method as well, as did Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and pretty much every other company that has the ML resources to do this. They obviously had a good reason to do so, beyond assumptions.