Google Serves Old Search Page To Old Browsers

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday September 2, 2014 @11:58AM 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.

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Slashdot Beta by gargleblast · 2014-09-02 12:36 · Score: 5, Interesting

The last remaining problem I had with beta.slashdot was its turning up in google results. I solved that with Firefox redirector and this rule:
Include pattern ... *-beta.slashdot.org* Redirect to ....... $1.slashdot.org$2 Pattern type ...... Wildcard