RE: server side sorting & paging? [Virus checked]

[denis.havlik@t-mobile.at]

>denis.havlik@t-mobile.at wrote:
>> 
>> I do use google a lot though, and I could imagine 
>> other apps where zilions of results are returned, and I want to sort 
>> them by some criteria and give the user a page of results a time back.

>Well, usage of Google is a good example where the user usually refines it's 
>search criteria after reading the second page of search results. IMHO most 
>normal people are not browsing through search result sets larger than 10 items.

Think you are missing the point: Google results are sorted by some kind of internally defined "quality" factor. Without this sorting, Google would be completely unusable.