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For the aftermost 10 years, Google has been rockpile new widgets into its search after-effects -- and now, a incorporating of journalists has synthetic a browser extension to show you what search would squinch like without them. Built by The Markup, Simple Search strips out the notifying panels, arcade boxes, and search ads to show pigeonholed the raw web search results. It's a appearance of an older, simpler Google, one with hasty antitrust implications.

Introducing the extension, Maddy Varner and Sam Morris describe it as a go-go throwback to an eldest version of Google search, vanward the interrelationship of the Knowledge Graph and its coupled notifying boxes.

"The extension lets you wanderlust rearmost to a time when online search operated a little differently," they write. "Nowadays, you don't constantly gotta click any of the 'blue links' to get notifying twin to your search -- Google gives you what it thinks is important in notifying boxes of notifying pulled from other websites."

The extension works on Google and Bing searches and is awaited for both Firefox and Chrome browsers.

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A standard Google search for "crocs shoes."

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The aforementioned query using the Simple Search extension.

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Google's antitrust critics (particularly Yelp) have stretched alleged for this maternal of unbundling of search after-effects from Google products like Maps or Shopping, arguing that incorporating infoboxes lets Google withdraw out competitors. While the broader casing for "search neutrality" has floundered, the narrow concerns fitfully product interrelationship have found cogent traction with regulators, most recently in the Lodge antitrust hearing this summer.

As Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) put it at the hearing, "Our figures show that Google evolved from a turnstile to the rest of the web to a belted garden that increasingly keeps users within its sites."

At the hearing, Google CEO Sundar Pichai dedicated the changes by shibboleth they are meant to provide a finer user fellowship within Google search. "When I run the company, I'm really focused on giving users what they want," Pichai told Cicilline. "We domestication ourselves to the lapsed standard."

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