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Genuinely curious, what kind of metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness of a change like this?
by nanidin 13y ago
Genuinely curious, what kind of metrics do you use to measure the effectiveness of a change like this?
- ZoF 13y agoI'm curious as well, specifically how would you go about tailoring those metrics to different features as they're released. Seems like that could be a pretty awesome/multi-faceted question to see the raw data behind. That said, I sincerely hope that this particular anti-pattern's efficacy in converting people from typing in URL's to searching for websites isn't the most important metric.
- joosters 13y agoThis seems to hint that Chrome reports its settings back to Google, so they could discover how many people disabled the feature. Is this true? Does Chrome phone-home with details of user settings?
- StavrosK 13y agoYes, it asks you when you first run it.
- RegW 13y agoHmm, so I guess their stats are likely to be skewed. Being based on the choices of those that don't know or care how the web works.
- AndrewDucker 13y agoOr those who are happy to contribute their behaviour despite being aware of both of those things.
- jasonlotito 13y agoThis is only in Canary, so these are choices being made by people who are opting in to using that version. It will be skewed toward early adopters. If you are using Canary and NOT reporting back, you don't know how Canary works and shouldn't be using it.
- altcognito 13y agoShould we use the "report an issue" option in Canary, or file it under: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=368725&q=origin%20chip%20url&colspec=ID%20Pri%20M%20Iteration%20ReleaseBlock%20Cr%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20OS%20Modified#makechanges https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=368725&q... ?
- antr 13y agoI'm going to be a cinic: if the Chrome team sees that users use Omnibox/Google more to got to the desired URL, that would be a positive thing (for them). Why type the URL when you can go via uncle Google?
- Cthulhu_ 13y agoIt kinda depends on the Chrome team's goals and whether those are absolute / which ones take precedence; I'd say in this case it's a compromise between usability / user-friendliness / not chasing away their users, and subtly increasing usage of google's search services. Google has avoided being obvious about Chrome giving them more revenue up until now, as far as I'm concerned. Whether this will also swing in their favor or not, I can't be sure at the moment. And with Safari on iOS 7 only showing the domain name, there is some precedence with the approach described in the article.
- akerl_ 13y agoExcept given the recent trend, too many decisions like that would likely result in LibreAlloy or something similar. They have a lot more breathing room to behave that way with gmail and Youtube and similar, where the value they are providing is in serving the content, as opposed to Chrome where the code is more or less available and their value is in developing the open source environment. Clarification: I'm not sold on the "Upstream goes sour? Time to Libre$thing" trend as a good thing in the long term, but I doubt the potential for it to occur has escaped Google's notice.
- magicalist 13y agoIt would actually be much easier than with most products, since this is just a change in the UI. You could fork Chromium while still keeping Blink upstream, and build whatever UI you want (somewhat similar to what Opera is doing).
- ithkuil 13y agowhat happens if you directly paste an URL? does it still perform a search or the browser will go to the URL (and then hide it)?
- blueskin_ 13y ago>Implying Chrome use metrics rather than just ruining what they want and telling users to deal with it