Re:Why does Google Search still not support infinity scrolli...
by RobAley on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @07:26AM
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I think his point was that the actual search results refer to a particular page on each site, but your's only show a reference to the site as a whole. Thus, where you show 4 facebook icons (and so the results appear to be repeated), the actual results are to four different facebook pages (probably of four different peoples accounts) and so aren't acutally repeats.
Re:Why does Google Search still not support infinity scrolli...
by will_brown on Wednesday December 05, 2012 @08:05AM
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You are exactly correct that the favicon links to all subpages. Example the FB favicon will take you to fb.com or fb.com/obama, scrolling over the favicon will show you a preview of the result page and the url before clicking.
But even linking to different subpages I think Google would prefer users not see multiple FB, Wikipedia, ect... results and that is just one rationale I offer for Google having an interest in limiting results/page (the question of the original submission).
As you will immediately notice FB, Twitter, Whitehouse.gov, barackobama.com are repeated 3-4 times each, and this is only the 1st 30 results you could continue scrolling down infinitely and you are bound to see the repeat again and again.
My point was user feedback complained of repeated results on my search engine. Users generally thought my results were lower quality than Bing/Google despite being identical depending on the API I was using. Further, I believe a lot of this has to do with Google/Bing users being unable to see a large number of results on the 1st page.