Ask HN: Does any search engine support returning 100 results at a time?

6 pointsby nomilkvor 10 Monaten5 comments

Until recently, google supported appending &num=100 to the search URL to give back 100 results.

I really like receiving a long list of search results, and I use the lower down ones quite a lot. Also loved the ability to ctrl+f for terms in the search results (didn't do it often, but it is occasionally useful).

Unfortunately, Google recently dropped support for this parameter.

Does anyone know of a search engine that supports returning 100 results at a time?

I've looked at Duck Duck Go, Kagi, and Bing, but none of them do (that I could figure out).

5 comments

ColinHayhurstvor 9 Monaten

Mojeek can provide 40 results at a time. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&t=40

You can get up to 1,000 results. For example: https://www.mojeek.com/search?q=apple&s=991

Up to 100 results from the API. https://www.mojeek.com/services/search/web-search-api/

Discussed here: https://blog.mojeek.com/2023/02/are-search-engines-deleting-...

Disclosure: Mojeek CEO

leakycapvor 10 Monaten

SerpAPI has a free ($0/mo forever) plan that lets you get 100 results for 250 searches per month

https://serpapi.com/blog/solution-to-scrape-100-search-resul...

I have not heard of another offering, and the next jump up in pricing from free to their cheapest paid plan is huge... so it's only a partial solution

firefaxvor 10 Monaten

They're probably worried about such settings being abused to scrape or proxy their content.

Duckduckgo allows you to enable "infinite scroll", so as a hack you can you can mash or hold down the "end" button or it's corrsponding shortcut in your OS/browser and get a lot of results in a few seconds.

cranberryturkeyvor 10 Monaten

bing did

leakycapvor 10 Monaten

google also unofficially did until sometime last week

bing now limits to 50 results per page even when signed in