• halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Google runs passive A/B testing all the time.

      If you’re using a Google service there’s a 99% chance you’re part of some sort of internal test of changes.

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      4 months ago

      Wouldn’t they be? They could measure how likely it is that someone clicks on the generated link/text

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        Just because you click on it that doesn’t make it accurate. More importantly, that text isn’t “clickable”, so they can’t be measuring raw engagement either.