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Does anybody else consider the new page number highlights less usable and intuitive than the old ones? For example, on the old version of the site, navigating

by percept 16y ago

Does anybody else consider the new page number highlights less usable and intuitive than the old ones? For example, on the old version of the site, navigating to Page 2 highlights the second 'o' in red, and the number 2 in red. On the redesigned site the same scenario shows a number 2 with the same color as the other numbers and bold as its only distinguishing attribute. At a glance I find it harder to quickly identify the current page, and I suppose this would give less experienced users even more trouble.

axod 16y ago
It'd be interesting to know how many users click past page 1. My behavior is more usually to look at page 1, and if what I'm looking for isn't there, adjust the search terms. I think the new numbers are pretty easy to see though.
- carussell 16y ago
  I have my homepage set to http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100 http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100. The num=100 makes the select box default to 100 results per page. I've been using this for years; I loathe pagination. In the past (let's say the Geocities era), it wasn't rare for me to click through to pages 2 and 3, even when showing 100 results per page. Aside: I swear there used to be an option on the Google home page for a (possibly very brief) time circa 1999–2000 that allowed you to select the number of results per page. But the Wayback Machine makes it appear otherwise, because a cursory glance at the archives shows that the select box only appeared pre-2000 on google.stanford.edu. But I don't think I ever googled from that domain. I might be wrong on the last point, though. There's absolutely no way I'm wrong about the select box appearing on the home page, though, because the removal of it was the entire reason I began clicking through to "Advanced Search", so that I could change the value to 100.
  - metaprinter 16y ago
    "I have my homepage set to http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100 http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100. " Cool tip, i'm going to try this for a while.
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yanw 16y ago
Nope, it's fairly obvious which is the current page, that's just nitpicking.

by percept 16y ago

axod 16y ago

It'd be interesting to know how many users click past page 1. My behavior is more usually to look at page 1, and if what I'm looking for isn't there, adjust the search terms. I think the new numbers are pretty easy to see though.

carussell 16y ago
I have my homepage set to http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100 http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100. The num=100 makes the select box default to 100 results per page. I've been using this for years; I loathe pagination. In the past (let's say the Geocities era), it wasn't rare for me to click through to pages 2 and 3, even when showing 100 results per page. Aside: I swear there used to be an option on the Google home page for a (possibly very brief) time circa 1999–2000 that allowed you to select the number of results per page. But the Wayback Machine makes it appear otherwise, because a cursory glance at the archives shows that the select box only appeared pre-2000 on google.stanford.edu. But I don't think I ever googled from that domain. I might be wrong on the last point, though. There's absolutely no way I'm wrong about the select box appearing on the home page, though, because the removal of it was the entire reason I began clicking through to "Advanced Search", so that I could change the value to 100.
- metaprinter 16y ago
  "I have my homepage set to http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100 http://google.com/advanced_search?num=100. " Cool tip, i'm going to try this for a while.
- deleted 16y ago
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yanw 16y ago

Nope, it's fairly obvious which is the current page, that's just nitpicking.