[junon]

I think you've missed the point. Google's primary web search feature could, in theory, be implemented without a line of JavaScript. That's how it was years and years ago anyway.

[zugi]

I use Firefox with the NoScript addon and google.com still works just fine.

[sangnoir]

I did not miss the point, I gave an answer based on the ground-truth rather than theory.

> Google's primary web search feature could, in theory, be implemented without a line of JavaScript

...and yet, in practice, Google defaults to a JavaScript-heavy implementation. Search is Google's raison d'être and primary revenue driver, I posit it therefore is optimized up the wazoo. I wouldn't hastily assume incompence given those priors.