I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year

Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by svnpenn on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:45AM (#26204940)

Duck Duck Go uses "more results", instead of proper pagination.

I won't use any website that has such poor judgement in website design.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by madsbuch on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:10AM (#26205174)

I am curious here. Why is that an antipattern in said case?

In particular, page based pagination requires a permanent set of elements that are sortable.

Sortable, indeed, you sort based on a scoring mechanism.

Permanent, nopes. If you save page 4 of search page and take a look at it next week, it might be different.

If pagiantion should be properly implemented in a search engine it would be like in elasticsearch where it is transaction and cursor based. But hey, carrying around millions of open transactions is not feasible.

So it seems to be a fair trade off to make an infinity scroll like feature for this.

But again, please enlighten me. I am curious.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by m12k on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:59AM (#26205073)

Do you ever actually use that? I've come to the conclusion (on all search engines) that if the result I'm looking for isn't on the first page, it's not going to be on the second or third either, so I've stopped even looking there.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by JohnicBoom on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:23AM (#26205291)

I use DDG for all searches, and do occasionally go to the second page of results (and sometimes even the third). When I do, I either find what I was looking for there or figure out what I might want to change or exclude from the search for my next query.

For example, this morning, I was looking up micro fans for embedded electronic devices, and did find some good results on the second and third pages. Not exactly what I was looking for, but close enough that it was worth digging in to the results.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by ravenstine on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:57AM (#26205052)

It's not optimal from a sharing perspective, but from merely a searching perspective I really haven't had a problem with it. When I used Google, I would rarely ever go beyond page 2, and I'm sure many people do the same.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by LordGrey on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:09AM (#26205155)

You can enable "infinite scroll" for both search results and images. That is not explicit pagination, but it does save a mouse click.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by TimBurr on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:16PM (#26208067)

I dunno if it addresses your concerns in particular, but there is a JS-free version with normal pagination:

https://ddg.gg/html https://html.duckduckgo.com

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by svnpenn on Saturday February 20, 2021 @04:40PM (#26208230)

Nope, same crap. Every single "page" has the same URL

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by chapium on Saturday February 20, 2021 @11:20AM (#26205262)

I don't see whats proper about navigating to a new page to view more of one list of data. That seems less intuitive although it became the norm.

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Re:I’ve used DuckDuckGo as my search engine for a year by new_guy on Saturday February 20, 2021 @10:52AM (#26205008)

It does seem like an anti-pattern especially for a search engine.

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