Links from half a decade ago are irrelevant here. The claim that pagination only benefits advertisers is ironic, given we are discussing a Google page.
The point of pagination in this case is to reduce the client-side processing load and up-front bandwidth consumption to view the page. This isn't a news article. It's a set of nontrivial binary files being downloaded and rendered using javascript.
The OP of this thread complained that infinite scrolling plus lazy loading put his browser under heavy load. The first respondent accused him of wanting everything loading up front. I merely suggest a middle ground.
The point of pagination in this case is to reduce the client-side processing load and up-front bandwidth consumption to view the page. This isn't a news article. It's a set of nontrivial binary files being downloaded and rendered using javascript.
The OP of this thread complained that infinite scrolling plus lazy loading put his browser under heavy load. The first respondent accused him of wanting everything loading up front. I merely suggest a middle ground.