SharePoint 2013 renders a maximum of 50 search results per page.
It is not possible to change this hardwired limit by configuring the web part.
If you set it to greater than 50, it throws an error.
I am told that the search control needs to be overridden or extended in Visual Studio.
I want the limit to be removed entirely. If this is not possible then set it to the maximum possible value.
However, paging still needs to work, so if I set the page size to 1000 then it will render 1000 results per page.. etc.
I ran into this same issue and needed to display about 200 results. Matt Stark’s client-side solution appeared to work for us, but it requires being authenticated to the site. I published a blog post here that shows how to increase the limit to 500 using a server-side approach that works for an anonymous sites: http://www.scottewing.net/Blog/Post/2/Getting-Around-the-Content-Se…. I believe it might be possible to go higher than that, as one blogger wrote that it requires changing the search service’s MaxRowLimit property (default is 500).
