The blurb is still accurate – the homepage has no weather, no news, no sponsored links, etc. Google the company does advertising, but the search engine page itself is still really minimalist. I think a lot of people forget (or never knew) how incredibly cluttered and ugly search engines used to be:
The blurb is still accurate – the homepage has no weather, no news, no sponsored links, etc. Google the company does advertising, but the search engine page itself is still really minimalist. I think a lot of people forget (or never knew) how incredibly cluttered and ugly search engines used to be:
https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/uploaded/preview/excite-1996-preview.png
https://c8.alamy.com/comp/TRRJR0/lycos-is-a-search-engine-that-was-popular-in-the-1990s-TRRJR0.jpg
https://sm.mashable.com/mashable_me/image/default/uploads252fcard252fimage252f1530168252fe88d0a82-60be-4830-83_1u6w.png
Complete rubbish. The very second you type a query you are getting all sorts of adverts and sponsored links.