Google Search to show limited results on desktop browsers

Google is doing away with continuous scrolling in search results for desktop from June 26 and from mobile in the coming months. The continuous scroll will be removed from desktop search results and the feature will be removed from mobile results in the coming months. Before the continual scrolling was launched, users had to manually click on the next button to move to the succeeding page. Google is now going back to the old system on desktop.

According to the new design, a pagination bar will appear as a footer in the search results where users can move to the following page of search results by clicking on “Next” or choosing the number of pages they want to see.

On mobile devices, users will have to tap on the "More results" button that will appear at the bottom of the page to move to the next page.

Google said that “this change is to allow the search company to serve the search results faster on more searches, instead of automatically loading results that users haven’t explicitly requested.”

While the continuous scrolling was introduced for mobile devices in October 2021, the feature was introduced in desktop in late 2022.

This change arrives the day after Google has started rolling out Gemini AI in the side panel of workspace apps such as Docs, Sheets, Slides, and Drive, as announced during the I/O developers conference in May.

The US-based software giant has made the Gemini AI available.