This will be added soon! Well, at least something you can press to retry

I clicked on the search engine article multiple times because I wanted to know and got bamboozled for longer than I’d like to admit.

Yes definitely! It ruins the "endless scrolling" when it just randomly stops loading .

Don't the new Material Design guidelines state all controls should be near the bottom of the screen?

Yes I seem to only be able to load a second or third 'page' when scrolling then can't go any further, this seems to be affected by how quickly you scroll to the bottom from what I can tell