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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?

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Post by tester756 »

KomoD wrote: post #20
tester756 wrote: post #18

Despite all the hate Google and infinite scroll gets, it seems to be good decision doesn't it? You rarely go to even the second page, I'm almost always improving/changing the query instead of going to next pages, so even in those edge cases where I have to go to next pages, then auto loading next results when I'm at the bottom of the page seems viable solution Infinite scroll is annoying because e.g you cannot link t…

> 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

I'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by atlasunshrugged »

tester756 wrote: post #21
KomoD wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

I'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?

I 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

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by PaulHoule »

tester756 wrote: post #21
KomoD wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

I'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?

In 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/

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.

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by valianteffort »

tester756 wrote: post #21
KomoD wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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

I'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?

In 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.

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by furyofantares »

nomilk wrote: post #8
KomoD wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ugh :( I really liked having individual pages

Out of interest, why? I find infinite scroll a pareto improvement (an improvement with no downsides)

Heh, a pareto improvement is "a new situation where some agents will gain, and no agents will lose"

I get your meaning but it's kind of a funny phrase to mean "no downsides to this one agent, me"

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by thunky »

valianteffort wrote: post #26
tester756 wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm curious - in what cases do you go even further?

In 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.

What do you find preferable about clicking the next page link vs having it appear without a click?

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by yard2010 »

ttctciyf wrote: post #3

A 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 numb…

WDYM too much remote working?

Re: Ask HN: Has Google search switched to infinite scrolling for you too now?

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Post by crazygringo »

KomoD wrote: post #20
tester756 wrote: post #18

Despite all the hate Google and infinite scroll gets, it seems to be good decision doesn't it? You rarely go to even the second page, I'm almost always improving/changing the query instead of going to next pages, so even in those edge cases where I have to go to next pages, then auto loading next results when I'm at the bottom of the page seems viable solution Infinite scroll is annoying because e.g you cannot link t…

> 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

But this saves you a click so what do you dislike?
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