[yupper32]

I've literally never in my life needed more than 400 results. What could you possibly be doing where you need over 400 results?

Severely gimped? Are you sure your use case doesn't just represent an extremely extremely small percentage of users?

[superkuh]

I'm absolutely sure that people who actually search the internet are so few that google does not think serving them is profitable. That's what I'm saying. Most people are like you and only click the first couple results.

And this is a terrible situation. There's an entire generation of people that can never learn how to search, even if they wanted to, since it is no longer available.

[beanjuiceII]

yea this is how i feel as well, no longer searching, more like spoonfeeding and that's your only option