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