Searching with a Lens shows less results than using "site:reddit.com"

LucasOe

I have a Lens for Reddit and HackerNews which includes the following domains: reddit.com, news.ycombinator.com. When I search for "Hello World" using this lens, I only see seven results in total:

When I search for "Hello World site:reddit.com" instead, I see a lot more results:

The same applies, when I use the Lens and search for "Hello World site:reddit.com":

Unfortunately, this makes the Lens barely usable in some instances. I think it should show the same results as when using site:reddit.com.

LucasOe

After some further testing, I just noticed that the results are only limited if "Grouped Results" is enabled in the settings. Disabling this setting will show ever result. In my opinion, results should never be grouped when using a lens, similar as when searching using "site:reddit.com".

Lens On + Grouped Results On: 6 Results
Lens On + Grouped Results Off: 20 Results
Lens Off + site:reddit.com + Grouped Results On: 29 Results
Lens Off + site:reddit.com + Grouped Results Off: 29 Results

Luis

Hey @LucasOe, sorry for the delay in following up. We only use a subset of our indexes for lenses, which explains the disparity in results. I'll mark this thread as nofix since we don't anticipate changes to this setup soon.
Generally, Lens-based results shouldn't be too different than when using the site: operator though. Please let us know if you find any other such cases.