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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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> Infinite scroll is annoying because e.g you cannot link to thing Infinite scroll is also annoying because it often breaks when navigating back to the page. Since this is a very popular use case in the context of a search page, I’m not a fan of this change.

It seems trivial for Google to fix if this is truly broken. They could just update the page params while scrolling.

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

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post #36

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> Infinite scroll is annoying because e.g you cannot link to thing Infinite scroll is also annoying because it often breaks when navigating back to the page. Since this is a very popular use case in the context of a search page, I’m not a fan of this change.

It seems trivial for Google to fix if this is truly broken. They could just update the page params while scrolling.

In theory yes.

In practice when I go to youtube’s search page (safari mobile), scroll down past infinite scrolling, click a random video and go back, I don’t see the video that I clicked on my screen.

I haven’t seen the google’s search page with infinite scrolling. But even if it works now, I’d be worried that it would break in future, since so many popular websites don’t care about that.

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

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Multiple businesses I have worked for in the last 20 years A/B tested infinite vs paginated scroll and found that the infinite leads to more stuff being seen, and therefore bought. Google was holding out because of the way they sold ads, but we knew they'd change eventually.

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

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I'm surprised that I'm asking this because I've been such a fan of Google for years....but does anyone have alternative suggestions for Google products? ( Looking for alternative suggestions for: 1. Google Maps (yikes was it bad when I used it this week) 2. Google Docs (such a frustrating lack of features) 3. Google Drive (it's impossible to find anything when you are sharing docs with someone) 4. Google Search (Chat…

Magic earth,osmand+, Openstreetmaps Wps, only office, Zoho docs Offline only office is really nice Nextcloud Searxng Zoho mail is like Gmail a decade ago, protonmail is decent too

Don't know most of these - thanks for the info

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

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I'm surprised that I'm asking this because I've been such a fan of Google for years....but does anyone have alternative suggestions for Google products? ( Looking for alternative suggestions for: 1. Google Maps (yikes was it bad when I used it this week) 2. Google Docs (such a frustrating lack of features) 3. Google Drive (it's impossible to find anything when you are sharing docs with someone) 4. Google Search (Chat…

> ChatGPT has spoiled me and I find Google Search to be a large waste of time I hope you're not blindly trusting answers. I experimented with ChatGPT for a while and (even when using the GPT-4 model) I would get answers that were false but didn't sound too unreasonable. I could have easily been misled if I didn't already know the answers to the things I was asking it.

No I don't. It's wrong so much of the time but gives me enough to figure out a lot of stuff. It's more like a rubber duck most of the time.

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

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I'm surprised that I'm asking this because I've been such a fan of Google for years....but does anyone have alternative suggestions for Google products? ( Looking for alternative suggestions for: 1. Google Maps (yikes was it bad when I used it this week) 2. Google Docs (such a frustrating lack of features) 3. Google Drive (it's impossible to find anything when you are sharing docs with someone) 4. Google Search (Chat…

i use magic earth for maps, libre programs for word/excel etc (not cross-device though), searxng for searches (pick an instance and try it), tutanota for email (they focus on privacy - emails and your inbox are encrypted).

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

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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

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

With 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.

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

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Google pruned their index so radically that it doesn't make a difference anymore. For a bit less common stuff, but yet nothing esoteric, I get to the last page around page 4 or 5. And most of the stuff on those 5 pages are mostly SEO-farm copies of the same stuff. I quit looking for recipes on google. Bought a dozen of recipe books last year. fuck that shit.

As an ex chef, escoffier as a basis, then salt fat acid heat by Samin nosrat. Recipes are a guide for unfamiliar, but once you learn the profiles of each ingredient you can expand greatly. I know it's a bit off your comments and I certainly search myself for new basis to play with, but I hope it helps :-)

Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat opened my eyes; it showed me an insightful way to deconstruct flavor and therefore the building blocks to construct it. Highly recommended!

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

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Google pruned their index so radically that it doesn't make a difference anymore. For a bit less common stuff, but yet nothing esoteric, I get to the last page around page 4 or 5. And most of the stuff on those 5 pages are mostly SEO-farm copies of the same stuff. I quit looking for recipes on google. Bought a dozen of recipe books last year. fuck that shit.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who noticed it's harder to find recipes from smaller sites anymore.

I have been using openAI for this, its surprisingly accurate, and way faster for easy recipes and instructions.
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