Google Search, More Machine Now Than Man, Begins Requiring JavaScript

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John Gruber (perhaps unknowingly?) weighing in on the definition and delineating between a web “site” and a web “app”:

Google Search is more of an app than it is a website. A website is a server where you can make requests over the HTTP protocol and get results in HTML format. A server that communicates with clients via executable JavaScript is not a website.