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diff --git a/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Fri/googlescript.txt b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Fri/googlescript.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9962b41 --- /dev/null +++ b/old/published/Webmonkey/Monkey_Bites/2007/05.14.07/Fri/googlescript.txt @@ -0,0 +1,14 @@ +The recently redesigned Google Search page violates the companies own design suggestions by failing to gracefully degrade for users without Javascript-enabled browsers. The new links at the top left of the page are an entirely Javascript-driven interface element, turn off Javascript and they disappear completely. + +As the [Google Operating System blog][2] points out, this violate Google's own suggestion for webmasters which read: + +>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. + +Obviously google isn't trying to optimize the homepage for its own spiders, but the lack of a graceful downgraded solution for browsers without Javascript (5-10% of web users depend on what stats you want to believe) is surprising especially since they're really just links. + +Even the drop-down menu for the "More" option could easy be handled with CSS in those cases where Javascript was not available. Given that fact that almost all Google services (even GMail) offer some sort of stripped down HTML-only option, it's downright embracing that the primary search page can't do the same. + +Hopefully the Javascript only navigation is simply and oversight and Google will offer an alternative solution in the near future. + +[1]: http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/05/google_to_add_e.html "Google To Add Embedded Videos to Default Search Results" +[2]: http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/05/no-javascript-no-google-navigation.html "No JavaScript, No Google Navigation"
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