Has Google Ended Support for Plain HTML Search?

Probably in preparation for them forcing users to use AI search.

https://mashable.com/article/google-ai-mode-search-default-r...

I think all the new LLM labs (plus all the tools offering SEO services for LLM-based search and answer engines) finally reached a limit of scraping that Google no longer can sustain.

Woah. What do folks use for use cases that require it (e.g. lynx)?

There's: https://lite.duckduckgo.com/lite

[dupe] An earlier post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45201692

Well. Fuck google I guess.

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As of today, all plain HTML searches fail. Text mode browsers like `w3m`, `links`, and `lynx` now show a page that says, "Update your browser". Command line tools like `curl` and `wget` redirect to a page which say, "Turn on JavaScript to keep searching". Hopefully this is just a temporary glitch or security measure as Google hasn't announced anything yet.