# Simple Search Is a Browser Extension That Gives You Google Circa 2010

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**Tags:** tools, programming\
**Created:** [November 12, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/simple-search-is-a-browser-extension-that-gives-you-google-circa-2010/162342 "2020-11-12T13:08:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![PlayBoy83](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/playboy83/32/164314_2.png) [@PlayBoy83](https://onehack.st/u/PlayBoy83)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 1:08pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/simple-search-is-a-browser-extension-that-gives-you-google-circa-2010/162342/1 "2020-11-12T13:08:35Z")

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![image](https://onehack.st/uploads/default/original/3X/1/3/133b0aaa75105726cb741e4a120810e8ce3b7282.jpeg)

A group of journalists has built a browser extension, called [Simple Search](https://themarkup.org/google-the-giant/2020/11/10/introducing-simple-search), to show you what Google search would look like [without the information panels, shopping boxes, and search ads](https://www.theverge.com/21560298/simple-search-google-browser-extension-download-markup-antitrust). The Verge reports:

_Introducing the extension, Maddy Varner and Sam Morris describe it as a conscious throwback to an earlier version of Google search, before the integration of the Knowledge Graph and its accompanying information boxes. “The extension lets you travel back to a time when online search operated a little differently,” they write. “Nowadays, you don’t always have to click any of the ‘blue links’ to get information related to your search – Google gives you what it thinks is important in info boxes of information pulled from other websites.” The extension works on Google and Bing searches and is available for both [Firefox](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-search/) and [Chrome](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/simple-search/bbpcngjcblhpkhadnbhgdjhmidojegha?hl=en&authuser=2) browsers._

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**Author:** ![Jared](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/jared/32/38087_2.png) [@Jared](https://onehack.st/u/Jared)\
**Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 10:13pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/simple-search-is-a-browser-extension-that-gives-you-google-circa-2010/162342/2 "2020-11-12T22:13:55Z")

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I prefer using uBlock Origin’s Block element option to target specific parts of a site, like auto-playing video ads etc.

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**Author:** ![MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/mikeblueberry/32/34516_2.png) [@MikeBlueberry](https://onehack.st/u/MikeBlueberry)\
**Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 12:04am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/simple-search-is-a-browser-extension-that-gives-you-google-circa-2010/162342/3 "2020-11-13T00:04:14Z")

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I use Duckduckgo since 2018 in instead of google.