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Comment by beanjuiceII | Hacker News Reader

I feel like many Google UI's have been getting progressively worse... I used to watch my movies on google play..now i have no idea where they have gone... in the web i can still access via play, but phone app not there?! no idea what this company is doing left and right hand aren't in sync

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Definitely. Were you aware that Google search will never return more than 400 results? Most people don't run into this because they use the default of 10 results per page and it takes 38 pages. But I use 100 per page and that's only 3 page of results. I can (and do) scan through that in under a minute. http://googlesearchonlyreturns400results.lol/

Google search has been severely gimped. And it's not alone. Bing too will only ever return under 900 results. The days of surfing the web are over. The tools to do so no longer exist. Now the searchable web it's just whatever has been posted on a corporate walled garden in the last year.

I've literally never in my life needed more than 400 results. What could you possibly be doing where you need over 400 results?

Severely gimped? Are you sure your use case doesn't just represent an extremely extremely small percentage of users?

I'm absolutely sure that people who actually search the internet are so few that google does not think serving them is profitable. That's what I'm saying. Most people are like you and only click the first couple results.

And this is a terrible situation. There's an entire generation of people that can never learn how to search, even if they wanted to, since it is no longer available.

yea this is how i feel as well, no longer searching, more like spoonfeeding and that's your only option

I was just thinking the same thing this morning using the Play Store dev console, which reminded me of Cloud console. Everything is randomly jumbled into a bunch of menus on the left. I can't remember where anything is.

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