I believe the problem is bigger than what the article points out. Under the new scheme, all search results pages have the same URL. The part after the hash not

I believe the problem is bigger than what the article points out. Under the new scheme, all search results pages have the same URL. The part after the hash not part of the URL, it is a fragment or anchor. It breaks my firefox extension that nukes searchwiki. It breaks my custom CSS for the search results page (see userstyles.org). I often bookmark google search results in del.icio.us. Depending on how such services are implemented, different search results pages might show up as the same page. I'd guess there's just a lot of code out there that assume search results are separate URLs, and that's going to break. Those two breakages are simply due to the regex identifying the search results pages not matching anymore, and are easily fixable.