Keep search simple!
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Google Search has undergone many, many changes over the years – some big, some small, but every single one shifting the iconic internet search engine further and further away from its original form.
You can see an interactive timeline of Google Search on Google’s own website, if you’re curious about how it’s evolved over the years. Some of these additions – such as the ‘Did you mean…?’ suggestions for typos and the inclusion of new search modes including image, news, and video – were obvious slam-dunks for Google, improving the versatility and functionality of its search engine. Others, like the inevitable arrival of sponsored ads in results and the recent AI-powered ‘Search Generative Experience’ (SGE), have been… less popular.
Well, Google has seemingly done the unimaginable: it’s released a new ‘web’ setting for the search engine that will take you back to the glory days of Google Search in the year 2000, surfacing only a list of text-based links. That’s right – no images, no shopping results, and no AI-generated answers.A more perfect search engine
The ‘web’ mode has been rolled out globally and should be accessible for everyone now; you’ll find it under the ‘More’ option at the top of the results, below the search bar itself.
