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Google is dropping continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and pagination enables serving results faster (Barry Schwartz/Search Engine Land)

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Barry Schwartz / Search Engine Land:
Google is dropping continuous scroll in Search, saying it didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction and pagination enables serving results faster  —  Google Search will stop its continuous scroll user experience where Google loads more results as you scroll past the first page of the search results.

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robcook
103 days ago
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@cosmotic - fair point. For me it's because I sometimes search for something (like an actor) and that doesn't mean I want Google to push stories about them at me forever, I was just doing a one-time search.
samuel
104 days ago
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I don’t bother reading past the top 5 links anyhow, in the rare instances that I actually google something now
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jrd811
103 days ago
Worth giving duckduckgo a try. Their search results are very reminiscent of the early 2010s Google. Lots of relevant results and they've improved it vastly over the past few years
WorldMaker
103 days ago
Duckduckgo’s default search is just Bing with somehow a sillier name. As a long time Bing user it always amuses me to see reccs for ddg because you could just use Bing directly, skip the middleman, and for a time get a better experience. Though perhaps the joke is back on me that Copilot Mania is slowly making Bing’s default experience worse and I have been tempted to switch to ddg to have Bing without Copilot. But I also heard ddg is working on their own LLM projects because of course they are and why bother switching if nowhere is safe.
robcook
103 days ago
I think the big reason to use DDG is it anonymizes your searches so Microsoft (or Google) don’t track everything you search for. There has definitely been a level of “AI” creeping into it lately though that makes me sad.
cosmotic
103 days ago
Aside from the principal, what's the value to me in anonymizing my searches?
leonick
88 days ago
Bing is a source for DDG but they also have their own crawler and use some other sources too. Obviously there is a difference in presentation between DDG and Bing too.

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