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Google Search Brings Continuous Scrolling to Desktop Users in the US
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I finally gave up using DDG because it pretty much sucks in the USA - so I thought I’d try Google again after a 7 year hiatus.
Google now sucks like 10X worse than it used to. So now I’m back to DDG. They’re both godawful.
Google now sucks like 10X worse than it used to. So now I’m back to DDG. They’re both godawful.
90% or more of your searching will be fine through DuckDuckGo. I've used it on all devices for years and very rarely have a problem finding what I want. But it's worth knowing that adding !g to your search sends to you to Google for the rare occasions when DDG struggles. It's a switch worth making imo.
I'm with you. I had DDG on my phone for a while but after a while I noticed I was going to Firefox and searching there more often. I'm pretty much back to using google via Firefox which keeps the google app off my phone. Not happy with either tho...
I don't like this. Continuous scrolling has always annoyed me. I'd rather click a button than have to wait and watch a spinner every time it is trying to load a new set of results. There should be an option to turn it off.
I used to like Google. I'd search on something and I would get results that only had what I searched on. Now it returns a mix of valid and invalid results. It doesn't matter if I do an exact search, I get back crap. Between that and all of the advertising, we need a better search engine.
I used to like Google. I'd search on something and I would get results that only had what I searched on. Now it returns a mix of valid and invalid results. It doesn't matter if I do an exact search, I get back crap. Between that and all of the advertising, we need a better search engine.
The one that annoys me is when I specifically search out a business, but it still shows me a different one in an ad
I wish they would make it like some with the dropdown for how many results you want on one page. I might pick double the usual amount, since like someone else said, the results skew off the tangent by the end of page 2 now.
But how will I know that I'm truly desperate if I don't know when I've progressed to the second page of search results?
The most annoying thing is when you’ve scrolled down a bunch and click on a link, and then later click Back, the infinite scroll has reset and you’ve lost your place.
DDG sucks how? What do you feel it's not giving you? It doesn't have the bells and whistles of Google for sure but it returns search results without spying on me. I don't need my search engine to, for instance, show me film times, I just need it to take me to the cinema website so I can see the film times myself.
this is bad on so many fronts. No one wants to keep scrolling, advertisers and SEOs will game the system, this opens it up for misinformation, monopolization, and manipulation. Search needs to be multi-dimensional.
Google search queries on desktop will now return results in a continuous scroll instead of being divided into several pages, the company announced today (via The Verge).
The change is reminiscent of the way modern social media feeds work, although Google's version isn't quite the "infinite scroll" that social network users will be familiar with. Google says a search will now return six pages of results in a single scroll, before offering users a "See more" button to show additional results.
For as long as most people will remember, search results have been divided over several linked pages that users click through to continue browsing. Google claims continuous scroll will make browsing results quicker and easier, although some users are likely to miss how pages often act as a natural breaker for them to consider whether they have all the information they need.
Google says the change is rolling out first for English searches originating in the US. The company added continuous scroll to its namesake mobile app in October, so it's likely the feature will expand to other countries and languages in future.
Article Link: Google Search Brings Continuous Scrolling to Desktop Users in the US
The usual way is that they make the old behavior an option for a while, but then remove it once most people have gotten used to the new behavior.
Totally agreed. I wonder, couldn’t they ese mark pages as a virtual page number to sort of work around this?
Yea I despise those ads where you have to scroll for screens upon screens to pass them
This is so true. I guess it doesn't matter how they display the data when it is nothing but garbage results.