Google flushes out users of old browsers by serving up CLUNKY, AGED version of search
Found on The Register on Tuesday, 02 September 2014
Google is attempting to shunt users away from old browsers by intentionally serving up a stale version of the ad giant's search homepage to those holdouts.
A Google employee, meanwhile, said that the tactic was deliberate in a move to flush out stick-in-the-mud types who insisted on using older versions of browsers.
Thank you. The old interface works much better. Javascript has always been disabled for the search because the "modern" instant search and the presentation of the results was just annoying. Also, the + seems to work again, no more stupid quoting. Looks like Google made a good move there.