If you mean "google" as "google properties as a whole", then yeah (the fusion of google maps and google earth is something absolutely _mind blowing_ to see in a web browser, for example).

If you mean "google" as "the search engine", then I was perfectly fine with a server side rendered, non-so-much-semantic search it was until last decade. Advanced search worked well, fast as hell already. Hell, there were two search text boxes if you wanted to search for something else once you scrolled down to the bottom of the page.