You'll still be able to see more results, but will need to click on additional page numbers to do so.

The days of endless Google scrolling may be over. Google is dropping its continuous scroll experience, which showed a user more and more results as they scrolled past one page of answers. The search engine is going back to its previous results style, showing one page and then making you click on a pagination bar to go to more results pages. The news was first reported by Search Engine Land.

A spokesperson for Google confirmed the change to CNET. The changes began on Tuesday for desktop searches, and will come to mobile search in the next few months. A spokesperson for Google told Search Engine Land the change was meant to allow faster results, and also said that Google found that automatically loading more results didn't lead to significantly higher user satisfaction.

Tips for use of the new results page

You don't have to do anything on your computer or phone. If you use Google, the continuous scroll will eventually stop showing up, first on desktop, later on mobile searches.

This means the next page of Search results will now only load when you click "Next" at the bottom of the page while on desktop, or tap "More results" on mobile.

Depending on what you're looking for, there's a chance you might not see the information you're hoping for among those earliest results.

So if you're accustomed to just scrolling and scrolling and bypassing the earliest results, looking for a more nuanced or specific explanation, you might have to get used to clicking to go to the next page again.

Continuous scroll lasted under three years

Google introduced continuous scrolling back in December 2022, and for mobile devices even earlier, in October 2021. At that time, a Google blog post called the change "more seamless and intuitive." While the post admitted most users can find what they're looking for in the first few results, it said some people may want to keep going, especially if their question is broader or more open-ended.

Continuous scrolling also serves as a way for websites, including CNET, to keep people on their sites for a longer period of time.

This may not be a popular change for sites that didn't show up in the earliest Google results, and who now will be a click away, rather than a simple scroll.

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