Topic on Help talk:CirrusSearch

Why does the search function reset to 20 search results every time search terms are rephrased? It is very cumbersome and scroll intensive, particularly because the option to display more results is only at the bottom of the page.

Example: I tried to search for a picture of a BEST showroom by the architecture firm SITE. As both "best" and "site" are very common words, I didn't expect to find what I'm looking for at the top of the results. But every time I refined the search terms (e.g. adding a city), I had to scroll down to the bottom of the page to click on 500 results (and, of course, have to look at the first 20 results twice as well). What a waste of time!

And what's worse: the search results page is not automatically active. Therefore, to get to the bottom of the page (or, later, back to the top of the page) you can't use the End or Home button on your keyboard without clicking somewhere in the page first. Very, very annoying.

Could this not be made more user friendly?

This annous me, too, most of the time. I think, though, this is wrong here, but had to be one or two Phabricator ticket/-s.

It is annoying. I use my browser shortcut key to go to the bottom of the search results page.

Probably not a bug or feature request, but instead: a 20-results per page is a characteristic of processing. The help page tries to say that while indexing and weighting are unavoidable pre-processing of a query, the snippets and bolding are avoidable post-processing requiring heavy networking and text processing.