Hi Ian,
I take it you are doing this under macos?
I just tried it here at shellworld, gave me the google search home page,
but not my search results.
For the record David, this change from Google has zero to do with sight
safety.
Instead, when Google lost its recent anti trust suit around paying
companies to position their search tool exclusively, they stopped
supporting anything that was not tied to themselves first, and paying
companies next. Have you not come across this new google preferred
concept?
Still Ian, your success means I am going to try that trick in a few more
shell environments.
Thanks,
Oh, not sure if it will work for your setup, but try search.aol.com
For some of my lynx doors, that works too.
Kare
On Tue, 10 Feb 2026, Ian Collier via Lynx-dev wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2026 at 01:23:51PM -0500, Mouse wrote:
I *think* Google won't even deign to talk with lynx these days. (I
don't know; they certainly aren't willing to work with the lynx I use,
but that's a fairly old lynx.)
Google is not willing to talk to my GUI browser that has a strict NoScript
installation. So I use DuckDuckGo instead. It has to be said, that is
somewhat inferior to Google in the quality of results it offers.
So when DDG fails, I do this: lynx -useragent=lynx www.google.com
It works for me (though I don't expect it to keep working forever).
The key is the lowercase 'l' in the useragent. It doesn't work with
an uppercase one. Go figure.
imc
