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Give me an ajax-less google search over what we have now any day.

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https://www.google.com/webhp?complete=0&hl=en

Pretty cool! Now if I can figure out how to default to this...

http://www.google.com/preferences, second box down.

I use this one

https://www.google.co.uk/webhp?complete=0&hl=en&pws=0&safe=o...

to disable autocomplete, personalised search results and safe filter.

Seeing as how this is HN, I knew someone was going to write this...

I know this is a sarcastic take on HN's overall conservation, but you must admit Ajax has its place, and it's not necessarily on a search engine result page.

Besides, it ruins much of my browser behavior, shortcuts for example don't work at all, such as backspace. A barebones page would have been a better fit in the target environment (the web).

Google seems to be the biggest culprit in breaking keyboard shortcuts: backspace, keyboards, etc. Surprises me, because surely many of their employees are 'power users' - doesn't it infuriate them, too? I wonder if Chrome has a 'don't hijack keyboard' extension ...

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