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The new design for the ‘Google.com’ home page requires Javascript to display the links at the top of the page. For Javascript-disabled browsers the links disappear from the screen. This is a major issue, as this involves Google’s Home Page and Search Results Page which are its 2 most viewed pages.

Interestingly, this violates Google’s own suggestions for webmasters. Quoting, Google’s Webmaster Guidelines blog:

“Use a text browser such as Lynx to examine your site, because most search engine spiders see your site much as Lynx would. If fancy features such as JavaScript, cookies, session IDs, frames, DHTML, or Flash keep you from seeing all of your site in a text browser, then search engine spiders may have trouble crawling your site.”

While Google generally writes code and builds pages that do not need Javascript, so its pages are fully functional in all browsers, this recent move on its homepage is a big surprise.

While this move by Google may be hard to explain, knowing Google its reasonable to hope for it to offer an alternative solution to this problem.

Google.com with Javascript Enabled:

Google with JS

Google.com with Javascript Disabled:

Google w/o JS

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