On: Please log in with router's password

[Alupis]

Click "Next Page" folks - estimated 7,000+ results turns into 21 results - many of which are dead, many others are HN aggregators, leaving the total amount of these model routers on the public internet to be a small handful - all of which appear to be professionally managed with CNAMEs, etc.

All the outrage in this thread over nothing...

[calibas → Alupis]

Ahem:

>In order to show you the most relevant results, we have omitted some entries very similar to the 22 already displayed. If you like, you can repeat the search with the omitted results included.

[ElijahLynn → Alupis]

True claim: When I click on "next page" I get "Page 2 of about 7,520 results" BUT when I click on "next page" again I do get "Page 3 of about 21 results".

[nicce → ElijahLynn]

Does this mean that our beloved search engine is narcissist. Overqualifying its capabilities. Or thinks that it found everything useful already.

[ElijahLynn → nicce]

I read an article on this behavior many years ago explaining why it does this, and it has something to do with performance.

[mr_sturd → Alupis]

> many of which are dead

They could all be receiving hugs of death from the HN traffic.