RobertWalker wrote:

What I think is even more nuts is to have to slog through 137 pages of
results without having a decent way to filer that down to just a few
pages at most.

For example. I very rarely make it past about page 3 or 4 of a Google
search result set. I'd never make it to page 125.



RonPhillips wrote:
> Exactly! If you search for some term, and then specify an ordering of
> the results, the pages should be labeled with your ordering, not
> numbers.
> 
> Let's say you search for "dengue fever" and then order by author. The
> page links should show the name of the author of the first article on
> the page. Then it's easy to home in on Robert Abernathy, followed by
> Robert Walker, then Frederick Cheung. Why make us guess that "Walker"
> is going to be around 125, then click from page to page? Just label
> the pages with the sorting field.
> 
> Ron

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