Annoying Google URLs
Am I the only one that finds annoying the URLs Google uses in their results pages?
I mean, I often do a quick search just to find the reference URLs for blog posts, and then I see a Title (and below it and the summary, a green URL without the scheme.
Copying this URL used to work, but since maybe one year ago they use redirection to track search results, so I end up pasting something like:
http://www.google.es/url?sa=t&ct=res& cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fgenshi.edgewall.org%2F& ei=mITKRs3VHpCkwgGltdCjAQ& usg=AFQjCNFaRi_4TQ6PEtEeU8OuquQAoMKG0Q& sig2=d1BGlREG7SCpmc-dFJyYQg
(I cut it for readability) which really sucks hard.
Suggestion to Google: Please, let us have a clean copy of the URL to paste it in our blogs. Isn't there an automated way to use a greasemonkey script to clean the clipboard on copy with a bit of javascript?
Script to make tiny URLs less opaque
I asked the lazyweb some time ago about hacks to get a couple of things done: skip the redirect on google search results (at least for cut&paste purposes) tinyurls less opaque The second one was getting more and more critical as use of twitter a... [more]Trackback from Santiago Gala at
They’ve been tracking search results for as long as I remember but they’ve always done it using just Javascript before. I think it was something like setting the href correctly but having an onclick that did the tracking. I think the new URLs (with the redirect in the href) that you’re seeing only come up when you’re logged in. If you log out you get the old way.
Posted by Rob at
Scriptlets for URL preprocessing
I pointed towards the idea of a javascript based snippet of code that would clean the ugly google URLs in the result page to ease copy-pasting of them. We can probably get Google to do it just under the threat to bypass completely their redirect scheme...Excerpt from Boxes and Glue at