GoogleWithoutGoogle - weekend project for a simple startpage

Is this really necessary? I use Chrome, and can just type my search in the URL bar and go? I'm pretty sure Firefox has this same feature. On top of all that, if you go to <a href="http://www.google.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/</a> and just start typing, it will start your search. This site just seems like a waste with so many other (quicker) routes that are available. I don't see any value in this. Am I missing something?

From <a href="http://www.google.com/permissions/#tab2" rel="nofollow">http://www.google.com/permissions/#tab2</a><p><i>We cannot approve the use of Internet domain names that use the word “Google” or some variation of “Google”. For example, we would not approve a site called googleXYZ.com or gogggles.com.</i><p>Google does seem to be a bit lax about it nowadays, compared to a few years back.

Complacently brakes the back button, it creates a new back state for each key press when typing. It realy shouldn't do that.

could be a bit risky to have a domain containing the word "google", don't you think? Dude you got it even two times in there, double offensive :)

Nice! If you remove "google" from the URL it will be a cleaner googleless experience :-) Also, can you make the back button work?

Would be neat if it took the first link directly a la "I'm Feeling Lucky" instead of redirecting to the Google search page.<p>I like it though, even just for its novelty.

Tip: if you want to use base64 for URLs, you can remove any trailing =s and add them back in yourself by inspecting the length (they're just padding) for prettier URLs.

I would love to be able to change the google search URL. Mine currently is: &#60;google-base-url&#62;/webhp?complete=0&#38;hl=en&#38;pws=0&#38;safe=off

Pressing enter too soon after typing doesn't search sometimes.

From the name, I was expecting a hack to take away the "Search" page, leaving the rest intact. Less useful, but that would be a more interesting statement on perceived bloat in Google.

I hit enter and I still get Google.

super minimal. like how it was inspired by the garfield minus garfield thing.