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Google A/B tests their recommendations. Either these recommendations improve their topline metrics or you're in some exotic test group for some in-flight experi
by Panini_Jones 4y ago
Google A/B tests their recommendations. Either these recommendations improve their topline metrics or you're in some exotic test group for some in-flight experiment.
Either way, these are deliberate choices whose results likely show that showing bad recommendations is good for business.
- terribleperson 4y agoMy guess is that worse first-page search results leads to more people clicking on the sponsored results, because at least they have some relevance to what they searched for. However, I think the long-term result of this approach could be the loss of their seemingly insurmountable dominance of the search market.