Re: Lynx Google issue

On Wed, 10 Sep 2025, Dan Yaklich wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I'm on Lynx version 2.9.2 and I receive this message now on Google:
>
> Update your browser, Your browser isn't supported anymore. To continue
> your search, upgrade to a recent version. Learn more
>
> For various unfortunate reasons, I do require being able to use Google.
>
> Any thoughts?

First: Google provides many distinct services. Granted, all
respondents (afaict) have assumed you meant Google Search
specifically. And given the quoted message, that is a reasonable
assumption.

Second: Google Search itself can be used for many different
purposes. No two people use it quite the same way.

I suspect the replies could become more interesting if you were able
to specify what you use it for.

Personally, I have found over the years that using the search bar in
Wikipedia is a satisfactory replacement for a significant proportion
of what I once used web searches to obtain. For my purposes, this
provides sufficient quantity and quality of "first-pass" external
references on the topics of interest to me.

But obviously "Use the Wikipedia search bar instead" is not
universally helpful advice.

Tangentially related: recently someone pointed out to me that whereas
reddit.com doesn't really work anymore without javascript, its "old"
subdomain still does:

   https://old.reddit.com/

So, for certain kinds of searches,

   https://old.reddit.com/search#search

could work.