User Scrolling Issue

Question

I have a site where I

am thinking about putting an ajax "click for more results" similar to twitter, etc. But each of my results is displayed with A, B, C next to the result. I'm wondering what I should do when user click for more results. Should I keep going and just go all the way to AAB, AAC, AAD or should I restart the ordering and go A, B, C again? Which would be easier for the user?

I hope this question is clear. Thanks for any help.

edit: so what I mean is like this: (these are like what the listings would be)

A. This is listing 1

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B. This is listing 2.

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C. This is listing 3

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D. This is listing 4.

On the "click for more" it could either restart the

A. This is listing 1

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B. This is listing 2.

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C. This is listing 3

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D. This is listing 4.

or it could keep going until it was like

Aa. This is listing 27

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Ab. This is listing 28.

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Ac. This is listing 29

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Ad. This is listing 30.

To give you more information on why I need these references, let me explain. I have a business directory. The reason I have need for these letters on the side is that I also have a map with icons that match to each of the listings.

Answer 1

If this is something you really need to do then try combining page number and result. Using multiple letters AAC, etc, is not a good system and just serves to confuse.

1-A

1-B

1-C

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2-A

2-B

2-C

--

3-A

...

Answer 2

A,B,C... is just not well suited for infinitely long lists.

1,2,3... isn't much use either for alignment reasons.

My question is: how useful is it to give each result a reference?

Answer 3

Try this thread. A question I asked a while back. I think it ight be useful to you.

How to combine search results from multiple sources onto the same results page