Oh I'm sorry that Chrome, Google's own browser, is not suitable for viewing their own website. I guess it must be detecting that I am using Linux and breaking on purpose?

https://i.imgur.com/nIQdZU7.png

Chromium is esoteric? And what does an “esoteric” DE have to do with whether a webpage renders well at a given viewport size?

uh, I'm using chrome on windows on a 2560x1440 monitor and have a horizontal scroll on google as well. I actually have power toy'd my windows to a 60/40 split because of this and other websites unable to display properly with 50% width, which I really don't feel should be a huge ask considering the website works fine on a phone.

A similarly-sized window works fine for me in Safari and Chrome on macOS.

Weirdly I'm observing the same behaviour as parent in Safari in macOS, and it really is baffling as the basic google.com website used to be pretty well & sensibly optimised.

Alright, I just tried the exact same search query and there is something wrong with the responsiveness of the knowledge panel thing on the right side.