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- Google is ending continuous scrolling for search results, bringing back the traditional pagination format.
- Google claims this change aims to serve search results more efficiently, as continuous scrolling did not significantly improve user satisfaction.
- The change takes effect for desktop searches on June 25, with mobile searches following in the coming months.
Dust off those “Google Page 2” memes, folks. Google is turning back the clock on its search results and ditching the continuous scrolling feature.
Continuous scrolling, first introduced in October 2021 for mobile search and December 2022 for desktop search, was a user experience in which Google Search automatically kept loading more results as you scrolled past the first page. Now, instead of an endless scroll, users will once again see the familiar pagination bar at the bottom of the search results page, with the option to skip to specific pages.