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Google Scraps Continuous Scrolling in Search Results

icanhazmac said:
I would wholeheartedly prefer to pay money for my services and not have my data be the payment. Unfortunately I believe that even pay services sell your data, they are just double dipping.
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Google search used to be a lot better then it is now. Companies need to stop changing things for the sake of changing things. I’ve seen a lot of companies change how their software works and a lot of times they make things more difficult or lose popular options.
 
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Tdude96 said:
I'd be curious to see what would happen to the numbers if it was no longer the default search option on phones and if Siri stopped misunderstanding people and talking about what she found on the web.
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Depending on how the DOJ case against Google ends up, they may not be the default search on Safari and Firefox in the U.S. down the road.


Tdude96 said:
The second part was not in jest. I'm personally not aware of anyone who still uses google search. Other google services, yes - mail, drive, youtube, etc. And there have definitely been a lot of very vocal people about not using google search anymore. It's like veganism or crossfit, when they do it, you hear about it.
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Given its significant market share, it is surprising you wouldn't know at least one person that uses Google search. It would be like hearing someone say in the 1990s/2000s that they didn't know anyone who uses a Windows computer.
 
Not that I care about Google since switching to the ducks, but search results are the one place I'd actually want a continuous list to work down. As I recall, half of googles first page is all paid advertisements and junk, so chopping it off at one page is like having a search engine that gives you three actual results and then buries every other relevant thing on further pages few people will ever click on.

Social media is where the use of continuous scroll hooks the brain up to an unrelenting sewer pipe of hyperstimulation and screws up the dopamine & cortisol levels in kids developing minds. I can't imagine people are chemically addicted to google search results.
 
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The quality of google search has recently been declining a lot... I've found myself using alternatives quite frequently recently. Even in the past, first page results seemingly where often tweaked to match a certain type of user (those that can't use google properly and type in stupid search requests, such as questions).
On top of that, google seems to have "censored" a lot of content (not censored per se, but ranked back in results) making it more difficult to find "rare" content even the search request for that was very specific (such as when looking for a particuler technical problem where there is a similar problem very common google tends to still jump on those despite putting an exclusion using the - operator).

With the problem above I used to jump to page 3-4 straight... good we are back at being able to exactly that.
 
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Were they just getting rid of page numbers so that people don’t notice the increase in ads and bad search results on what would have been “page 1”?
 
johannnn said:
Like why not just load the 10 first hits, and then load additional hits in the background and populate them as we scroll?
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I want a browser option for sites that do that to load EVERYTHING. An option that will tell the site that I've scrolled ALL THE WAY TO THE BOTTOM and force it all to load.

Sure, it'll use a bit of RAM. But I despise sites that don't load stuff until I scroll to it. And if that browser option became standard, sites would stop doing that, because the bandwidth hit would hopefully bankrupt them.

Sure, would be annoying if you have capped data, but I don't. 800 megabits (and soon to be gigabit) of uncapped load everything.
 
When you make a search, they reorder the navigation links based on what you typed. They also tell you there's a million webpages for something, but they only give you the first XX pages with nothing after that. Google feels fake compared to what they used to be.
 
Nooooo. This is so nice, please don't. I feel helpless, vulnerable and pathetic when I start hitting the 2 and 3... at 4 I know I'm just in full denial. At 6 it's curiosity to see how unrelated things can get to my original search.
 
Infinite scrolling in search results would devalue front page results and top of front page results. Otherwise people would just keep scrolling until they find what they need, or forget what they need and click on something unrelated on page 7.
 
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