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> You rarely go to even the second page You might not, I do, I do a lot, I even go further. I personally don't like the change at all
by KomoD 3y ago
> You rarely go to even the second page
You might not, I do, I do a lot, I even go further. I personally don't like the change at all
- tester756 3y agoI'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?
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- atlasunshrugged 3y agoI used to often do a minimum of 5 pages when I was doing any sort of serious research to start checking the more esoteric and less SEO optimized results. The infinite scroll has definitely been annoying for me
- PaulHoule 3y agoIn theory there might be more than ten interesting results on a topic, and with some search engines, say the one at https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ there really are. For Google the results past the top ten have been unusable for a very long time, frequently just a repetition of the same garbage. Circa 2004 I was interested in the question of why Google was so much better than other search engines, which got me into reading TREC proceedings which made it clear that Google probably wouldn't do very well on TREC because the original TREC scores assumes you care about the relevance of the 1000th result and Google was all about "I'm feeling lucky". A month or so ago I was talking to someone developing a search engine who was concerned that most tracks in TREC now are concerned about precision @ 1, precision @ 5 and things like that and was wondering how to tune up a search engine if the 1000th result matters. I guess things go full circle.
- valianteffort 3y agoIn cases where the result wasn't on the previous page. I can't decide what's more annoying though, the infinite scroll or the search result layout change.
- thunky 3y agoWhat do you find preferable about clicking the next page link vs having it appear without a click?
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- srvmshr 3y agoIf your first language is English, and you end up using Google in a non-Anglophonic country, the option to change language (without going through sign-in hoops) is a drop-down at the bottom. The infinite scrolling, where results get lazy-loaded is really irksome in that case.
- crazygringo 3y agoBut this saves you a click so what do you dislike?
- kmoser 3y agoWith distinct pages it's easy to bookmark them and/or remember "oh, there was something interesting on page three." With infinite scroll, that interesting thing becomes lost in a maze of twisty passages and more difficult to return to because you are never on an individual static page, but rather a single ever-changing page.
- omaranto 3y agoIf you find an interesting search result on page 3 you seriously bookmark page 3 rather than bookmarking that link?
- crazygringo 3y agoIf you're going through a long list of unchanging results, like issues of a magazine sorted by date, and you want to save your place, then sure. But Google results are ephemeral and change constantly. I've never heard of anyone wanting to bookmark the second page of search results. I agree infinite scroll doesn't make sense on all sites, but for internet search results it's perfect.