Re: Text-Mode Browser Friendly Search Form

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On Wed, Oct 25, 2000, Hugo Haas wrote:
> As I explained it on my site[2], since Google changed its layout, it's a
> pain to use Google with Lynx, so I have arranged a solution.

Wow! I can't believe it. I sent them an email on Monday[2] about that, and
they fixed it already!

Here is how the new Google[3] home page looks like with lynx:

                                  Google

                       Search 1,247,340,000 web pages
          _______________________________________________________
             Google Search I'm Feeling Lucky  Advanced Search
                                Preferences

Somebody finally cares about usability and accessibility.  People using
Lynx or more generally text browsers must be less than 2% of their
visits, and yet they fixed that. Those guys are awesome.

I guess it's gonna be the end of my tiny search form[0]. I found it
really useful for those four days I had to wait. :-)

The HTML on their home page is still invalid, but I'm so pleased that
they did this change that I'll stop complaining for a while.

>   0. http://larve.net/2000/10/search/
>   1. http://impressive.net/services/dtrt/
>   2. http://larve.net/2000/10/search/about
 3. http://www.google.com/

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