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Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by wolpoli on Friday September 09, 2022 @07:25PM (#32786090)
> The technical reason for this behavior, as others have remarked below, is pagination.

> It'd make pagination basically useless if the same results you already went through show up on a later page because the ranking is different.

A bit off topic: I have always wondered why search result is the only feed on the web (apart from HN) that has not adopted infinite scrolling. This is a good explanation.

Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by jtc331 on Friday September 09, 2022 @08:33PM (#32786510)
Infinite scroll is a terrible UI experience despite being popular; that’s why not everyone has adopted it.
Re:Google pays ‘enormous’ sums to maintain search-engine dom... by wolpoli on Friday September 09, 2022 @11:35PM (#32787544)
For sure, infinite scroll isn't designed for the benefit of the user.