Google will bring back page-based navigation in its Search results instead of continuing to offer the continuous scrolling experience, a change it will apply first to the desktop version.
In 2021, the technology company deployed navigation based on continuous scrolling in its mobile search engine, an experience that collects the search results of the following pages, which load automatically as the user scrolls through them.
This is a feature designed to prevent users from manually scrolling to consecutive pages, which also ended up making its way to the desktop version a year later.
Google has now decided to remove continuous scrolling, as confirmed by a spokesperson to Search Engine Land. The change will come first to the desktop, where starting today it will show a button with the word ‘Next’ to advance in the results. Later you will do the same on mobile, with the ‘More results’ button.
The change responds to the intention of speeding up the appearance of results, instead of loading more without the user having explicitly requested it, since they have not identified that with continuous scrolling users are more satisfied.
