Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

https://www.theverge.com/2024/6/25/24185727/google-search-continuous-scrolling-doomscrolling-graveyard

by jmsflknr • 2 years ago

25 9 2 years ago

Bluestein2• 2 years ago

(Google is killing search results, downright).-

meltyness• 2 years ago

It's hard to blame them, most of the well monetized expansive web content is deep web, pay walled, brittle, mixed media, copyrighted, and not enabled for something like microtransactions, subject to GDPR, and doesn't make them a dime.

atoav2• 2 years ago

Exactly — capitalisms goal isn't to create a good service, it is to extract money, hence a good CEO will take a perfectly fine service and maximize revenue by extracting value even if it means the service gets worse.

Now ideally that would mean the service then dies or gets surpassed by competitors, but that mechanism only works if we are not talking about monopolists, that e.g. have the power to make themselves the default on browsers and operating systems.

ilrwbwrkhv• 2 years ago

Well, even though I called out Google is dying a while back, credit where it's due - infinite scroll is one of the worst ux for a list of things.

jordanb• 2 years ago

I strongly feel like infinite scroll was the harbinger of the dark pattern web. It broke the back button. It broke the idea that a list of results could be a static thing. It began the transition from sensible user-friendly ordering of items to algorithmic ordering. It was the first step towards "addictive-UX"

claviska• 2 years ago

I hope they bring back goooooooooooogle

closetkantian• 2 years ago

I wonder if this might be a preemptive move to stop Google from falling under addictive social media style legislation that would presumably ban infinite scroll.

Google is killing infinite scroll on search results

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