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Yeah.

The doodle code seems to have slowly been removed from the search results page. It should be run here, as it doesn't affect isch results pages, just regular ones.

Specifically, document.querySelector(".jfN4p") (searchLogo[0]) is null on a doodle day. The div returned by querySelector(".logo.Ib7Efc") contains an image two levels down which can be modified this way:

document.querySelector(".logo.Ib7Efc").children[0].children[0].src = "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/Google_2011_logo.png";

On a Doodle day, the first two (only the first!) images with class YQ4gaf (which is also used for a lot of images in the actual results), can be removed:

document.querySelector(".YQ4gaf").remove(); 
document.querySelector(".YQ4gaf").remove(); 

This classname requires extreme care as it used to cause issues that were solved by removing the whole previous solution to this issue in commit 03388b6.

• Google Videos (formerly videos.google.com, now located at /videohp) still exists for some reason. It appears to look a lot like /imghp does, so I could probably re-use code from that. Unlike Google Images, the search page is a regular Google search and not the special query-stringed Images search page.
• Google Patents
• Google Scholar (has unique logo)
• Google Books (similar to Images hompage somewhat)

There are a few more atypical layout pages which might honestly be easier to update:

• Google Maps (has unique logo)
• Google Finance
• Google Shopping
• Google News
• Google Travel and Google Flights (Flights specifically appears to behave differently than the other Travel pages)

Behaviour

What the header looks like normally:

What Old Google does to it:

What it should look like:

Cause

The code run on the /search page is as follows:

var img = document.getElementsByTagName("img")[0];
img.src = replacementurl;

Simply, the header background is the first <img> element on the page (index 0), whilst on non-Google-Doodle days, the Google logo is at index 0.

• Google, Google Images, and Google Video could all have their search boxes on homepages and results pages be made a bit squarer, and the padding between results could probably be condensed a bit.
• Green website link text would also be nice.
• "People also ask" can be removed thanks.
• It'd probably be quite hard to reorganise the little thumbnail thing above the result title, but padding could be slimmed and a regex replacement of / › /\//g could be done to transform URLs to a more normal format.

When I go to google.com, I can for a split second see the current logo, before it is then replaced by the classic logo. Is it now possible to reorder the priority so the classic logo takes prescience, or to block the current logo or something?

So I found out just by switching the UserAgent (to for example an older version of Internet explorer) you can still get old Google UI:s

Is there any chance that this extension could have a UserAgent switcher built in or at least support for changing the Google logo for these old UI versions?

Behaviour

What happens:

What should happen:

Cause

Google Doodle logos on the homepage are mostly <canvas>es and <div>s, I believe. Old Google doesn't know what's going on because it can't find it's <img> to replace.

Description

With Old Google enabled:

Without Old Google enabled: (Private window)

For some reason, Old Google likes to remove the first "similar image(s)" thumbnail on each results page. This is strange, because on Google Doodle days, the Doodle banner is removed and the Google logo is replaced with the old one (like it should) – so those two images should be all that were touched.

Fixing It

For now, elements with the alt="Image result" and alt=" from <domain>" tag can be blacklisted from being touched, I guess. Expect this fix in a v1.3 update at one point.

I will have to re-consider how the right images are picked, both for simplicity and optimisation's sake. This addon is already boilerplate enough.

Add an option to automatically redirect to Google's "web" search page for general searches via the udm GET parameter.

I see that it hasn't been updated in quite a while now

Normal results page:

Searching something like "Google" or "Microsoft" gives this:

This affects v2.1+. I'm not sure what code causes this. I'll probably have to refactor the search results logo replacer.