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There's only 1 page of search results, regardless of the search term. Why?
by TedDoesntTalk 5y ago
There's only 1 page of search results, regardless of the search term. Why?
- fiala__ 5y agothis is to do with the philosophy of Cliqz (who developed what's now Brave Search) - if you can't find the results on the first page, you'll probably be better off changing the search term than paginating. I have no idea how reasonable that is though.
- TedDoesntTalk 5y agoSearch the word “porn”. 20 results? The results I want might be on the 2nd page or further. I’m willing to concede maybe I’m an outlier in behavior but I definitely want more than 20 results perhaps 33% of my searches. I wonder if cliqz did any studies on this before deciding on 20 fixed results. It also conveniently allows them to avoid the issue of paging search results.
- pythux 5y agoNot to be nitpicking, but we actually show up to 20 results (not counting infobox, videos, news, places, instance answer, etc.) in a single page, which would correspond to 2 pages of other search engines (they usually show up to 10 results per page). The idea is that most people will never go beyond first or (very rarely) second page. And as said in another comment, if you did not find what you were looking for in the top 20 results, changes are you will not find it in following results. We do have plans for a feature which would allow community-based alterations of our core ranking algorithm which might help here. You can read about it here: https://brave.com/goggles/ https://brave.com/goggles/ Disclaimer: I work on Brave Search.