Comment by boomlinde

The crux of the problem is that the page in this doesn't need to be sophisticated. It lists result links from top to bottom. Things afforded by JavaScript that may enhance the interface like autoloading the next page of results can be made progressively. In particular, "visually fancier" content doesn't necessarily happen at the expense of accessibility with limited browsers. That's the point of CSS.

That is really the fault of "modern web", that web pages are more "sophisticated" than they really need to be to present the information they contain in a visually pleasing and usable manner. There are so many round-about approaches to the problem that people don't concern themselves with the most straight forward one. I can't say that it's somehow massively easier to create a simple list of links with some excerpt in a way that it doesn't work on a 15 year old browser than it is to create one that doesn't. You really have to go out of your way to break something as simple and fundamental as linking.