Google Removes Continuous Scroll Feature on Desktop

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  1. alexadry profile image98
    alexadryposted 2 months ago

    Google has removed the continuous scroll feature and is going back to the old pagination system. Apparently, mobile will be next.

    I am not sure what impact this may have on traffic. IMO, users will feel less tempted to click on page 2 rather than just scroll to find the info they want.  I think this may impact traffic if the articles aren't ranking first page of Google.

    1. bravewarrior profile image84
      bravewarriorposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      What are you talking about? I can scroll thru my articles using my desktop. I wasn't aware our articles have multiple pages. I've never posted multi-page articles on HP.

      Please clarify.

      1. alexadry profile image98
        alexadryposted 2 months agoin reply to this

        Sorry, I should have clarified.  This is about search engine results. If you perform a Google query on desktop, you won't be able to scroll down continuously through the results as before, but rather the results stop at page one and then you must click to go to page 2.

        1. bravewarrior profile image84
          bravewarriorposted 2 months agoin reply to this

          That has always been the case, in my experience.

    2. tsmog profile image86
      tsmogposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      Yup, I noticed the same thing. It seems to be just in the last day or two it happened. Today is 07/03/24.  I don't like it all. I agree it is cumbersome to click the next page to continue the search. I just counted the results of page 1 and it is 13 results. On another search it was 7 because the first result had a lot of this and that shortcuts to their website.

    3. Solaras profile image84
      Solarasposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      Seems like they are testing or training readers to accept page one and eventually do away with subsequent pages. Something is afoot which will behoove Google in multiple avenues.

      1. alexadry profile image98
        alexadryposted 2 months agoin reply to this

        At this point, the most useful thing may be to just skip to page 2 to at least get past the AI, ads and all the websites owned by businesses who have paid to get up to the top of the search results.

        I have seen some digital marketers complain about the change. They reported seeing pages that were getting decent traffic and now, with the continuous scroll removed, experiencing a significant loss of their traffic.

    4. Kenna McHugh profile image91
      Kenna McHughposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      The click-to-next page feature is for advertisers, I am sure. I can see the pitch now: pay an extra 50K to be on the first page of the consumer search.

  2. eugbug profile image95
    eugbugposted 2 months ago

    I think it depends on region. Also I've been experiencing various versions of this over the last few years. Sometimes there's pagination, other times there's a certain number of results, or you could choose up to 100. Also there's continuous scrolling, but you have to select "more results" if you want more. It always seems to vary.

  3. Venkatachari M profile image82
    Venkatachari Mposted 2 months ago

    Hi, I didn't notice it till now. I just used to click at the highranked ones these 4, or 5 days.
    So, just now, I opened Chrome and searched for Women's International Cricket and, scrolling down, came across those page 1,2,3, ...s.

  4. EricDockett profile image98
    EricDockettposted 2 months ago

    Why would they need continuous scroll when there is no need for users to go past their ads and AI-generated search results?

    The future of Google search is Ask Jeeves on steroids.

    1. Solaras profile image84
      Solarasposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      This. They are ending the world wide web and will control what data people get and where they get it. Next bidder please. Google really needs antitrust action.

    2. alexadry profile image98
      alexadryposted 2 months agoin reply to this

      So true!

 
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