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And that’s why Google’s pagination on search results is broken, and why so much usability was lost. Sometimes I want the lowest ranked results for a query, or the middle-of-the-field results. Let me have them.


>Sometimes I want the lowest ranked results for a query, or the middle-of-the-field results.

What's the use case for that?


Google results are gamed so much, that often personal blogs that don’t do SEO, but offer interesting content, appear beyond page 5 of Google search results, but are still relevant. Similar issues appear in many situations where search is used on third party results, but even on first-party results the first page is often gamed.

I’ve been thinking about it, and ideally one would make a search engine that only indexes pages that have no analytics, tracking, ads, paywalls, etc. Then I’d find those same pages I’m searching for.

To give an example: I found http://blog.deconinck.info/post/2016/12/19/A-Dirt-Cheap-F-Aw... on page 3 of Google for "raspberry pi led", just below https://tech.scargill.net/home-control-2016/ (both of which are interesting IMO)


It's a first result if you search for "raspberry pi led table"...


Yes, but I wasn't looking about tables. Just general things to do with led strips and raspberry pis.

Google is great for finding things you already know, but I'm using it for discovering things I didn't even know I was interested in.

I can't exactly just put the entire dictionary into google to try and find what I might like. I enter a category I might like, and look through the results matching that category.




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