Saturday, 1 February 2025

[netsurf-users] Re: Google search

In message <109836e25b.ricp@user.minijem.plus.com>
Richard Porter <ricp@minijem.plus.com> wrote:

> On 19 Jan 2025 Harriet Bazley wrote:

>> "The Google spokesperson told TechCrunch that, on average, ?fewer than
>> .1%? of searches on Google are done by people who disable JavaScript.
>> That?s no small number at Google scale. Google processes around 8.5
>> billion searches per day, so one can assume that millions of people
>> performing searches through Google aren?t using JavaScript."

> Well .1% of 8.5 billion is still a big figure.
> In any case I do have javascript turned on and still get blocked.

I've now switched my NetSurf home page to Yahoo:
https://uk.yahoo.com/?p=uk

Generally loads okay with NetSurf and the search also works.

--
Paul Stewart Sent from A9home running RISC OS 4.42