Classic google search page

March 30, 2017 3:44 AM

Is there still any way to use google search without the new (i.e. post 2010 ish) fancy javascript & design? I used to have a URL for some basic version of the page, but I have lost it.

I seem to remember that the simple javascript-free page I once had a link to was related to the custom site-search mechanism for webmasters; there was some API / backwards compatibility related reason for why it hadn't been modernised.

I'm not looking for noscript / other content filtering tools I can install in my browser, just something that behaves like the original search page used to.

posted by larkery to Computers & Internet (2 answers total)

The advanced search page doesn't do the search-as-you-type thing, though of course it presents many additional search fields.
posted by XMLicious at 4:40 AM on March 30, 2017

If you want to go real bare bones, there's googler. You can at least turn off "instant search" here which will dejavascriptify things a bit and be almost like going backwards in time.
posted by dis_integration at 5:22 AM on March 30, 2017