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Thread ID: 95998	2008-12-24 08:47:00	Why can't you skip straight to page 200, say, in Flickr search engine?	ssssss (2100)	Press F1

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732235	2008-12-24 08:47:00	When you are doing a search in Flickr, you may get a hundred thousand results. Same with Google. Why aren't they designed to let you skip straight to a result in the middle of the range? You always have to start with the first few and work forward. So most results after the first few hundred which you might look through, might just as well not be there. This is a pain in Flickr say, when you look at several hundred pictures, then stop and navigate away from Flickr, and want to go to rejoin the pictures after the ones you have already seen, at a later time. :confused:	ssssss (2100)
732236	2008-12-24 09:02:00	No, you can easily change the URL in Flickr to go to any page number that you want and this true of 99% of sites. In Google, you have to increase the count by 10 for each page that you want to go forward by. The reality is that the results that most people want will be in the top 10 easily or atleast the top 50 or so. Search algorithms just are that good and are being improved still. You're right, there isn't an explicit way to flick forward but with a bit of know-how, you can do it easily.	beeswax34 (63)
732237	2008-12-24 09:18:00	Thanks a lot Beeswax34, That helps enormously. I notice that both Google and Flickr still do not accept high numbers. If you want 4000 for Google, say, it gives a message saying it doesn't post more than the first 1000 results. :thanks	ssssss (2100)
732238	2008-12-24 11:19:00	Thanks a lot Beeswax34, That helps enormously. I notice that both Google and Flickr still do not accept high numbers. If you want 4000 for Google, say, it gives a message saying it doesn't post more than the first 1000 results. :thanks Ah, so it is. I guess once you get past 1000, you're only going to get duplicate results or such links that are so loosely related to your search term(s), that its not worth showing them or even processing them.	beeswax34 (63)
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