[andsoitis]

What do you think is a good list length? One can assume search results are practically infinite, so you have to make a decision of where to stop. What would your heuristic / algorithm be for determining the termination point?

[JohnFen]

> One can assume search results are practically infinite

I don't think that can be assumed at all, actually. At least, it sure doesn't look that way when I search for most things, on YouTube or elsewhere. Most of them run out of relevant results pretty quickly and then start including obviously irrelevant results.

[everdrive]

A list of every video where my terms show up somewhere in the title or description.

[andsoitis]

Do you want it sorted in some way? If so, why might you go to page 99999999999999 and pick the last item?

[everdrive]

I’m not searching for some huge wildcard — I’m searching for some video content which must be generated by somebody and uploaded. There are not billions of results for “cool cover of a song I like” — there are hundreds of results at most. I want those hundreds of results.

[andsoitis]

Maybe you can just use a different product (search site) to get better results.