Isn't this how all search engines have worked for most of the history of internet search? I was an avid user of altavista, hotbot, yahoo, and early google. I r

Isn't this how all search engines have worked for most of the history of internet search? I was an avid user of altavista, hotbot, yahoo, and early google. I recall that I was always able to 'page' through an absurd number of results. But I am old and have a bad memory, maybe I'm wrong