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by jrabone 4734 days ago
When my Amazon colleagues first introduced a carousel implementation as an optional widget about 5 years ago, I believe they were wildly successful in A/B testing for a period of time; then we went through every page having about 6 of the damned things, then they basically disappeared... With enough users, sometimes A/B tests can degrade to novelty detectors.