Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers

Posted by Soulskill on from the you-get-what-you-get-and-you-like-it dept.

Rambo Tribble writes: In an apparent move to push those using older browsers to update, Google is reported to be serving outdated search pages to said browsers. The older pages lack features available on the newer versions, and this policy compounds with the limits announced in 2011 on Gmail support for older web clients. As a Google engineer put it, "We're continually making improvements to Search, so we can only provide limited support for some outdated browsers." The BBC offers a fairly comprehensive analysis.

1 of 152 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Anti-Trust by gweihir · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    What kinds of morons use IE, regardless of version? Masochists? Or is this some subtle form of "I am dumb and proud about it!"-movement?

    --
    Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.