Study Finds Strong Bias Towards Selecting Top Search Link

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09-27-2005, 04:30 PM

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Study Finds Strong Bias Towards Selecting Top Search Link

A recent Cornell study sought to explain why users click on the top hit in a search engine results page. They secretly switched the first and second place results and found little difference in how many people clicked the first position.

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