The "End of Pagination" Of Serch Engines - Must See

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What do you do when you have a lot of things to display to the user, far more than can possibly fit on the screen? Paginate, naturally. 
Its ok with paginating when you have 10, 50, 100, maybe even a few hundred items. But once you have thousands of items to paginate, who the heck is visiting page 964 of 3810? What's the point of paginating so much information when there's a hard practical limit on how many items a human being can view and process in any reasonable amount of time?
Once you have thousands of items, you don't have a pagination problem. You have a search and filtering problem. Why are we presenting hundreds or thousands of items to the user? What does that achieve? In a perfect world, every search would result in a page with a single item: exactly the thing you were looking for. More...