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[fix] Force Google old UI with a new user agent #1749
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Google started to serve the new UI (that Searx can't parse) on Internet Explorer (all versions) so found out that by providing a very old version of Safari as a user agent Google let me load the old UI.
Why did I choose this very specific user agent? I wanted to use a quite common agent to avoid Google blocking it so picked this one which according to whatismybrowser.com is
![2019-11-22_22-39](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/4016501/69462327-99706680-0d70-11ea-8302-32012d9580dd.png)
very common
:https://developers.whatismybrowser.com/useragents/explore/software_name/safari/1
Fixes #1748
Fixes #1704