Dec 16, 2022
How may I disable infinite or continuous scrolling on desktop google search results?
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There's nothing we can do here to change the way Google Search works, and Google employees don't normally monitor this forum for feedback.
That's why we keep asking users to send their feedback direct to Google.
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Google has provided no way to turn this feature off. Perhaps someone will develop a browser extension to do so.
If you have feedback for Google about this new "Continuous scrolling" feature, click "Send feedback" at the bottom of the page after continuous scrolling stops.
Apr 17, 2023
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Jan 12, 2023
TL;DR: Wanna disable infinite scrolling? Go to Google search > click/tap the 'Settings' icon > in 'Region Settings', choose a region other than 'United States'. Try Canada, for example, as Google hasn't locked down Canada region into infinite-scrolling-only mode. Try and see what regions Google hasn't locked down into infinite-scrolling-only mode. The downside is that your results now will be Canada-relevant, not USA-relevant. It may degrade the quality of your searches, depending on what you want and what you search for.
Other good options include moving to search engines such as Startpage and Whoogle. They both fetch search results from Google.
Other good options include moving to search engines such as Startpage and Whoogle. They both fetch search results from Google.
Really angry+frustrated+annoyed right now at this update. I use VPN and I configured Google search to give me results from the United States (I live elsewhere) region, as they are the most relevant for me and my use-cases. I chose 'United States' in my region. Now, however, you can't turn off infinite scrolling for the United States region. This means that if have a USA IP-address, Google will force infinite scrolling for you and lock it down (you will be unable to turn off infinite scrolling).
I've used both Startpage and Whoogle for a long time due to heavy privacy concerns related to Google, but then came back to Google despite everything, as it is the most productive and hassle-free search engine. I just couldn't trade this degree of usability that Google search gives me for a more user-respecting and private experience. Now, however, I will really move to other search engines. I can't tolerate this anymore: "In regions where continuous scrolling is available, this setting will have no effect, even if continuous scrolling is off)." So, you take away from users the right to customize their search experience?
Goodbye Google. This time -- forever.
I've used both Startpage and Whoogle for a long time due to heavy privacy concerns related to Google, but then came back to Google despite everything, as it is the most productive and hassle-free search engine. I just couldn't trade this degree of usability that Google search gives me for a more user-respecting and private experience. Now, however, I will really move to other search engines. I can't tolerate this anymore: "In regions where continuous scrolling is available, this setting will have no effect, even if continuous scrolling is off)." So, you take away from users the right to customize their search experience?
Goodbye Google. This time -- forever.
Last edited Jan 13, 2023
Jan 13, 2023
Jan 21, 2023
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difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that a democracy governs
for the people, it lets them freedom of choice, while a dictatorship uses the
people and governs for their own benefit. You can deduct which one is Google.
Apr 17, 2023
They had already have cut-off the number of pages you could navigate through on searches that generate thousands of results. They now limit you to a few dozen search-result pages at best that you can look at before you end up and the "last" page of the results (despite there being apparently being thousands and thousands of more pages that google reports it found - but which google now leave way to navigate to).
Since this change benefits Google's revenue, and further enables Alphabet to force sites that push their view points - don't expect them to allow the use of workaround or add-ins for very long.
I know for a fact that they already working on changing the URL API so that search URL's can no longer reference page-numbers to generate results in pages - they must have you looking at the first 10 to 15 pages of things they approve before you get the content they dislike.
This is the same reason that they actually removed sort by date - sorting by date allowed you to bypass their curation of search results since the sort-method forced the results to be stacked temporally.
I's say use quack-quack-start, but it can't even do handle multiple phrases in a search - much less handle boolean operators. So Google now has another arrow in its quiver to to prevent people from seeing "undesirable" websites and information. Note that it that is is not a coincidence this change happened as are approaching campaign-season in the Untied States.
Last edited Apr 17, 2023
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