> The technical reason for this behavior, as others have remarked below, is pagination. > It'd make pagination basically useless if the same results you alread

> The technical reason for this behavior, as others have remarked below, is pagination. > It'd make pagination basically useless if the same results you already went through show up on a later page because the ranking is different. A bit off topic: I have always wondered why search result is the only feed on the web (apart from HN) that has not adopted infinite scrolling. This is a good explanation.