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Search Results Pagination

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Here are some pagination sample from the four major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask). You will notice some consistency in these examples:

“previous” page link is hidden unless available
- Ask did not do this, but they should
they all have an active state
- the active state for MSN and Ask could be a bit clearer
ability to skip multiple pages
- Google & Ask provide 10, Yahoo! 11
- I’m not sure why MSN only shows you 5 pages, they should change this to 10

Overall, search results pagination is a pretty simple design pattern; however, you can see that even the four major search engines have some different approaches to similar characteristics.

Here are some links to additional search results pagination examples: