The decline continues.
this post was submitted on 19 Jan 2025
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the quality of search results tends to be degraded [without JavaScript].
Lol, how? That's such bullshit.
Seriously, that's such an absurd statement. It implies that the client-side affects the actual results.
I think their system just makes more money with sponsored gimmicks they might be enhancing.
Google can eat shit.
If you set your user agent to Lynx it won’t need JavaScript
Which proves, without a doubt, that the engine doesn't need js to load results.
DOS wins again!
Talk about a step in the wrong direction!
I have started treating everything as the walled gardens that they are. so I do google on chrome and microsoft on edge and if apple was not so reliant on ios devices I would run safari for them. Then firefox with no script and other essential addons for my real stuff.
I wish I didn't ever need google but unfortunately sucksuckblow has been getting worse and worse.
Wait, they didn't before?
No, you could submit a request and just parse the HTML. This allowed people to write search proxies and then filter the results. Not as good as an actual API but it worked.
Time for Kagi?
So until now Googlers sent a full web form to the backend and replaced the page contents with HTML returned by the server?
Like cavemen…