I swear that DuckDuckGo had infinite scrolling for its search results, but this was not the case when I recently tried a search. Blog posts from a few years ago seems to confirm my memory that infinite scroll was the default: http://seanvwork.com/blog/duckduckgo-vs-google/
> DuckDuckGo doesn’t paginate their results like Google does. Instead, you just keep scrolling down to wade through an infinite amount of search results.
Opening up DDG's settings in incognito mode, I see that its "Auto-Load" is now a setting that is off by default:
I personally found it to be a detriment to user experience. If my query doesn't return something relevant in the first 2 pages of results, why would I want to keep going down any further -- as opposed to doing a new search? Google's pagination has an effect of protecting me from lazily scrolling through countless pages of increasingly irrelevant results, and I wonder if DDG saw the same thing in user behavior tests when deciding to make infinite scroll non-default?
> DuckDuckGo doesn’t paginate their results like Google does. Instead, you just keep scrolling down to wade through an infinite amount of search results.
Opening up DDG's settings in incognito mode, I see that its "Auto-Load" is now a setting that is off by default:
https://i.imgur.com/yWrJ3uZ.png
I also remember that DDG fans saw infinite scroll as an advantage DDG had over Google, which was known to have rejected infinite scroll for search results: https://www.businessinsider.com/marissa-mayer-google-9-2010-...
I personally found it to be a detriment to user experience. If my query doesn't return something relevant in the first 2 pages of results, why would I want to keep going down any further -- as opposed to doing a new search? Google's pagination has an effect of protecting me from lazily scrolling through countless pages of increasingly irrelevant results, and I wonder if DDG saw the same thing in user behavior tests when deciding to make infinite scroll non-default?