Search Results Pagination

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:

Google

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Yahoo!

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MSN

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Ask

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