It seems google search has changed to using infinite scrolling for me, an incredibly annoying change.
Has anyone else got it? Is there a way to get the old pagination back?
Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
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Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#2Yes, you can disable it. It's right there at the top of the Search Settings page.
However, the selection of individual pages is gone, and replaced by a single "More results" arrow at the bottom of the page. So it does appear that they've gutted the functionality, and it's only continuous scrolling whether you choose manual or automatic style.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#3A couple of weeks ago it stopped showing the search page numbers at the bottom for me, but didn't infinitely scroll. I went into settings and changed it to infinite scroll manually so I could get past the first page of results. Trying in a different browser profile, I didn't have the issue. I got used to infinite scrolling in my main profile.. and then it mysteriously went back to multi-page results with working numbered links all by itself.
I haven't dared go back into settings to see if it's still set to infinite scroll (I assume not) because I don't want to break it any more.
I'm used to things randomly breaking in youtube, in the play queue, for example, but I thought this was kind of a shocking level of breakage to find in an online behemoth's primary offering, especially given how essentially simple its presentation task is.
Seems they might be still fiddling with it, though - searched the term slashdot and found "About 14,000,000 results (0.28 seconds)", but the bottom of the page only shows links to three pages of results, expanding to seven when I click "next".
I wonder what they think they're doing? Probably too much remote working, I expect. That'll be it.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#4Yes, you can disable it. It's right there at the top of the Search Settings page. However, the selection of individual pages is gone, and replaced by a single "More results" arrow at the bottom of the page. So it does appear that they've gutted the functionality, and it's only continuous scrolling whether you choose manual or automatic style.
Ugh :( I really liked having individual pages
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#5Mine has infinite scroll, but not infinite scroll of results. At a certain point it switches to boxes of recommended articles based on what it considers similar searches, which are literally never useful to me
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#6Yes, you can disable it. It's right there at the top of the Search Settings page. However, the selection of individual pages is gone, and replaced by a single "More results" arrow at the bottom of the page. So it does appear that they've gutted the functionality, and it's only continuous scrolling whether you choose manual or automatic style.
> However, the selection of individual pages is gone
Are you logged in? I have disabled infinite scrolling, and I still have selection of individual pages.
But if I open an incognito window and disable infinite scrolling, I get the same "More results" as you, so I'm wondering if it's related to being logged in or not.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#7Mine has infinite scroll, but not infinite scroll of results. At a certain point it switches to boxes of recommended articles based on what it considers similar searches, which are literally never useful to me
Same, but there is an option for me above the recommended articles to see 'More search results', which loads another ten or so.
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
#8Yes, you can disable it. It's right there at the top of the Search Settings page. However, the selection of individual pages is gone, and replaced by a single "More results" arrow at the bottom of the page. So it does appear that they've gutted the functionality, and it's only continuous scrolling whether you choose manual or automatic style.
Ugh :( I really liked having individual pages
Out of interest, why? I find infinite scroll a pareto improvement (an improvement with no downsides)
Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?
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Ugh :( I really liked having individual pages
Out of interest, why? I find infinite scroll a pareto improvement (an improvement with no downsides)
I can't really speak to the benefit for a search engine, but for our app we opted to keep actual pages because it allows users to remember approximately where some content is and go directly to that page.