Robert_Charlton - 3:43 am on Jan 20, 2009 (gmt 0)

...only five results as a default...

Is that on page one? ;)

On one query, I thought I'd look at page 2, and what I saw was kind of shocking...

- a block of four ads, on such a lightly colored background that it was really hard to tell where they ended...

- then one algorithmic result...

- then a block of five ads, consisting of the four at the top plus one additional...

- and then one more algorithmic result.

The page says it's "Showing 11 - 11 of 2,002,000" results.

Page 3 is "Showing 21-25 of 2,002,000" results, and it has nine ads, as on page 2, with five organic results in the middle.

I hope this is just a bug. It would be shameful if they keep it this way.

[edited by: Robert_Charlton at 3:44 am (utc) on Jan. 20, 2009]