Many advanced search interfaces allow you to change “10 results per page” to 25, 50, or 100. If you change to 50 per page, gives you over two-thirds of the dataset on a single screen. This eliminates pagination fatigue.
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Result #1 and result #72 have vastly different relevance scores, even in a well-indexed database. The drop-off in relevance between position 10 and position 60 is exponential, not linear. By the time you reach “61 - 70 of 72,” the match might be a single tangential keyword. Xx Search Results 1 - 10 of 72