Is google stopping at one page of local results on desktop?

[JS Girard]

I mean, not always (in theory... Like, I actually tried to find an example WITH more than 20 results and literally couldn't!), but i am seeing a MASSIVE uptick of queries where clicking on "more results" never shows more than one page, and these are queries for sizeable cities (Including Montreal!) that should by all measures, have dozens, if not hundreds of results, and used to do so.

It this another pushback against the ranking bots?

 

[JoyHawkins]

I saw this somewhere else on social media as well. Someone said it must be a bug, but maybe it's not?

I agree, if they are doing it this way it is probably to stop rank trackers.

@whitespark @KabanaSoft you guys seeing this?

 

[whitespark]

I noticed this too, but we track Maps, not local finder, so it hasn't impacted our software.

 

[KabanaSoft]

@JoyHawkins - i've seen it a few times where the pager isn't displayed on the local finder, but this hasn't affected our ability to gather additional pages of local finder SERPs

 

[fisicx]

Maybe it's Google realising almost nobody ever goes past page one in their local search so are saving considerable resources by not showing hundreds of results.

 

[JS Girard]

Maybe it's Google realising almost nobody ever goes past page one in their local search so are saving considerable resources by not showing hundreds of results.

Which is incorrect. Didn't Nearmedia study this and found that people are surprisingly more likely to look even beyond results 1-20, especially for YMYL queries? Mind you, it might have been done (I'd need to track down the study to be sure, assuming it's still online) during that time when the finder was in its infinite scroll version.