Smallest Google Homepage

Question

Inspired by this and this topic about the fact that Google's homepage isn't validating, just because of performance issues (1 byte less saves gigabytes of data traffic a day), I wondered:

What is the smallest possible HTML-file that renders Google Homepage correctly in at least one browser?

By Google Hompage I mean the most simple version of it, without Javascripts and the top menu et cetera:

Requirements and info:

• The HTML-file must include the <title>
• You may not load external files, except the Google Logo
• It's about the size of the HTML-file, not the size of the Google image logo
• Available languages: HTML, CSS and Javascript

Answer 1

<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url=http://google.com/" />

Answer 2

The following (verbatim) takes advantage of the fact that some browsers are mega smart about poorly formatted/incomplete html. I just didn't bother with html, head, or body tags. I did, per your requirements, include "title". I didn't bother with anything other than html.

The logo is exactly the same as the dimensions of today's logo. I did this by a google image search, specifying the width/height specified in the style attribute of the (thank you FireBug for saving me from the horrible source code).

I used bt.ly to shorten URLs.

<title>Google
<center>
<form action=http://bit.ly/Afziu&gt;
<img src=http://bit.ly/bThoDE&gt;&lt;br&gt;
<input name=q><br>
<input type=submit value="Google Search">
<input type=submit onclick=this.checked=1 value="I'm Feeling Lucky" name=btnI>

If, stylistically, you want a closer fit, let me know. Also, if valid html is required, I can do that to. When character counting, assume that there is no whitespace. I left it in so you could see my technique.

To beat this, competitors could find a way of breaking up the lines without using the two "br" tags.

This was tested with Firefox 3.6.8 on Ubuntu Lucid. Thanks for the interesting challenge :-).

Answer 3

<title>Google
<center><form action=//google.us/search>
<img src=//google.us/images/logo.png>
<p><input name=q>
<p><button>Google Search</button><button name=btnI>I'm Feeling Lucky

175B

• http: can be ommitted, assuming that we deploy it via HTTP.
  • Let's not use bit.ly for now--finding a better shortener can be done later.
• <p> over <br>.
• <button> over <input type=submit>.

Should work on Fx3.6 at least.