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List:       opensuse
Subject:    Re: [opensuse] Stupid Google Redirect URL Utility
From:       Randall R Schulz <rschulz () sonic ! net>
Date:       2009-06-09 13:33:39
Message-ID: 200906090633.39455.rschulz () sonic ! net
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On Tuesday June 9 2009, Clayton wrote:
> > When it started happening a couple of weeks ago, I did some
> > searching (using Google, of course) and found that others had
> > noticed and blogged about this change a bit. I believe one of them
> > mentioned that it only applied to users logged in to Google itself,
> > which I am.
> >
> > It is also not being used on Google Scholar, which is good for me
> > 'cause I use that heavily.
>
> I am logged into Google... I still cannot find a way to duplicate
> this new behavior.  A new feature turned on only for some users
> maybe? Google has done that in the past with new/experimental
> features... only some users get the feature until it's "debugged" and
> then rolled out to everyone.

This is true. We used to do this (and I assume they still do) at Amazon. 
There was a whole infrastructure for this sort of experiment. The 
manager could could choose what percentage of the users would be part 
of the experiment.


> C.


Randall Schulz
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