> I didn't want to register for a gemini group just to ask this
You actually don't need to. Gemini is a client-server architecture just like the web. You can grab a Gemini client, or use some of the web portals out there that make a server-side Gemini request and render the result to the browser.
> or "type in search" feature
There is a limited form of input allowed, but this input shows up as a query parameter essentially. This is how you can do search or offer some form of interactivity and how the current Gemini search engines/crawlers work.
> basically as if gemini was entirely reduced to mostly static websites with no forms of any kind possible
Again Gemini does allow limited forms, but it only accepts a single query parameter as input. You can, of course, parse the parameter however you choose, but the general culture is that there's very little interactivity and most everything is a static page.
You actually don't need to. Gemini is a client-server architecture just like the web. You can grab a Gemini client, or use some of the web portals out there that make a server-side Gemini request and render the result to the browser.
> or "type in search" feature
There is a limited form of input allowed, but this input shows up as a query parameter essentially. This is how you can do search or offer some form of interactivity and how the current Gemini search engines/crawlers work.
> basically as if gemini was entirely reduced to mostly static websites with no forms of any kind possible
Again Gemini does allow limited forms, but it only accepts a single query parameter as input. You can, of course, parse the parameter however you choose, but the general culture is that there's very little interactivity and most everything is a static page.