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Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination. I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.

m12k 6y ago
Do you ever actually use that? I've come to the conclusion (on all search engines) that if the result I'm looking for isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or third either, so I've stopped even looking there.
- JohnicBoom 6y ago
  I use DDG for all searches, and do occasionally go to the second page of results (and sometimes even the third). When I do, I either find what I was looking for there or figure out what I might want to change or exclude from the search for my next query. For example, this morning, I was looking up micro fans for embedded electronic devices, and did find some good results on the second and third pages. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough that it was worth digging in to the results.
new_guy 6y ago
It does seem like an anti-pattern especially for a search engine.
ravenstine 6y ago
It's not optimal from a sharing perspective, but from merely a searching perspective I really haven't had a problem with it. When I used Google, I would rarely ever go beyond page 2, and I'm sure many people do the same.
LordGrey 6y ago
You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.
madsbuch 6y ago
I am curious here. Why is that an antipattern in said case? In particular, page based pagination requires a permanent set of elements that are sortable. Sortable, indeed, you sort based on a scoring mechanism. Permanent, nopes. If you save page 4 of search page and take a look at it next week, it might be different. If pagiantion should be properly implemented in a search engine it would be like in elasticsearch where it is transaction and cursor based. But hey, carrying around millions of open transactions is not feasible. So it seems to be a fair trade off to make an infinity scroll like feature for this. But again, please enlighten me. I am curious.
chapium 6y ago
I don't see whats proper about navigating to a new page to view more of one list of data. That seems less intuitive although it became the norm.
TimBurr 6y ago
I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination: https://ddg.gg/html https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com https://html.duckduckgo.com
- svnpenn 6y ago
  Nope, same crap. Every single "page" has the same URL

m12k 6y ago

Do you ever actually use that? I've come to the conclusion (on all search engines) that if the result I'm looking for isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or third either, so I've stopped even looking there.

JohnicBoom 6y ago
I use DDG for all searches, and do occasionally go to the second page of results (and sometimes even the third). When I do, I either find what I was looking for there or figure out what I might want to change or exclude from the search for my next query. For example, this morning, I was looking up micro fans for embedded electronic devices, and did find some good results on the second and third pages. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough that it was worth digging in to the results.

new_guy 6y ago

It does seem like an anti-pattern especially for a search engine.

ravenstine 6y ago

It's not optimal from a sharing perspective, but from merely a searching perspective I really haven't had a problem with it. When I used Google, I would rarely ever go beyond page 2, and I'm sure many people do the same.

LordGrey 6y ago

You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.

madsbuch 6y ago

I am curious here. Why is that an antipattern in said case? In particular, page based pagination requires a permanent set of elements that are sortable. Sortable, indeed, you sort based on a scoring mechanism. Permanent, nopes. If you save page 4 of search page and take a look at it next week, it might be different. If pagiantion should be properly implemented in a search engine it would be like in elasticsearch where it is transaction and cursor based. But hey, carrying around millions of open transactions is not feasible. So it seems to be a fair trade off to make an infinity scroll like feature for this. But again, please enlighten me. I am curious.

chapium 6y ago

I don't see whats proper about navigating to a new page to view more of one list of data. That seems less intuitive although it became the norm.

TimBurr 6y ago

I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination: https://ddg.gg/html https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com https://html.duckduckgo.com

svnpenn 6y ago
Nope, same crap. Every single "page" has the same URL