Seamless pagination

A system, comprising:

• a memory storing computer-executable instructions;
• and
• one or more processors configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• receiving a current search query that originates at a client machine;
• receiving, from the client machine, an indication of one or more characteristics of the client machine;
• identifying past behavior of one or more users with respect to previously presented results of previous search queries, the past behavior indicating a number of previous results of the previous search queries viewed by the one or more users prior to the one or more users interacting with one of the previous presented results to a greater degree than merely viewing the at least one of the previous presented results;
• determining a set of current results of the current search query;
• determining a subset of the set of current results to send to the client machine based on (a) the number of previous results and (b) the one or more characteristics of the client machine, wherein the subset is displayable on the client machine on a quantity of pages, wherein the quantity of pages is greater than a single page;
• and
• communicating the subset and the quantity of pages to the client machine.

One or more non-transitory machine-readable storage media comprising instructions that, in response to being executed by one or more processors of a machine, cause the machine to perform operations comprising:

• receiving a current search query that originates at a client machine;
• receiving, from the client machine, an indication of one or more display characteristics and one or more memory characteristics of the client machine;
• identifying past behavior of one or more users with respect to previously presented results of previous search queries, the past behavior indicating a number of previous results of the previous search queries viewed by the one or more users;
• determining a set of current results of the current search query;
• determining a subset of the set of current results to send to the client machine based on (a) the number of previous results (b) the one or more display characteristics of the client machine, and (c) the one or more memory characteristics of the client machine, wherein the subset is displayable on the client machine on a quantity of pages, wherein the quantity of pages is greater than a single page;
• determining to enable seamless pagination based on the quantity of pages and the past behavior;
• and
• communicating the subset, the quantity of pages, and a seamless pagination control to the client machine such that the client machine presents the subset using seamless pagination.