Web search is such a routine part of daily life that it’s easy to forget how marvelous it is. Type into a little text box and a complex array of technologies—vast data centers, ravenous web crawlers, ...

Take a step back in time to a simpler, less bloated form of search without all the unreliable AI poppycock. It may or may not have hit you yet, but brace yourself: It’s coming. As we speak, Google’s ...