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The urls Google search presents don't invite hand editing, but it still works just fine.

For example:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pillow&start=100

But you may have tweaks in mind that no longer work, and so forth.

This is the point right here. Google intends these URLs for machine consumption, that you can simulate the work of the computer by hand doesn't change the facts. It also doesn't prevent them from creating another alternative URL scheme which is meant to be entered by humans explicitly.

Well why would they do that? How many people do you think it'd benefit?

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