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Thanks for your openness. I must admit to being slightly amazed that Google would add an irreversible-delete-button to a consumer facing app, without appropriate warnings and whatnot. Is that just an oversight, or is it by design?
You must be the only person still amazed by shitty Google UX
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> I should point out it'll strip the search query from the referrer when you click the search links in the ssl version of Google's SERPs - so the Google Analytics (or any other analytics tools) won't have those inbound search query strings. Last time I looked I don't think it was true. Analytics will get the data from the magic string in the referrer.
Surely there is no refer on a cross-domain navigation from an HTTPS site [1], and so the magic string won't make it there either. [1] If there was, this could leak, for example, session ID in URL, which would be very bad on a supposedly secure site.
From the giant thread, user BolshoiBrit: Found a work around: Add a new a search engine in wrench >> settings >> search "Manage Search Engines". Under "other search engines" add a new search engine using this address for the URL http://www.google.com/search?q=%s Name it "Google 2" or whatever you want. Works like a charm. -B
I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
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I suggest trying DuckDuckGo, a search engine that doesn't track you. Same instructions but replace the search url with: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%s
Unfortunately DDG's results suck. Nobody really cares about Google's 'tracking', people use them because they work.
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Unfortunately DDG's results suck. Nobody really cares about Google's 'tracking', people use them because they work.
No way, DDG results are great. Only about 1 in 10 times do I end up searching again on other engines.
On programming searches DDG goes better for me (than Google) because it uses the English data. Google insists on using Spanish data even though I disallow results in other languages than English or Catalan.
For other searches, mostly local information but if it's something recent too, Google goes better. So I use DDG at work, and Google at home.
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Surely there is no refer on a cross-domain navigation from an HTTPS site [1], and so the magic string won't make it there either. [1] If there was, this could leak, for example, session ID in URL, which would be very bad on a supposedly secure site.
Google does a redirect to http before sending you out because of that... just look in the dev tools from your browser.
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Well, more "dot com domain only" than "US-only". The dns magic underneath encrypted.google.com, www.google.com and www.google.com.au shows that doesn't matter - all three are "in Australia" (at the very least, within 21ms) from where I am (Sydney): [Bigs-MacBook-Pro:~] bigiain% traceroute www.google.com.au traceroute: Warning: www.google.com.au has multiple addresses; using 74.125.237.87 traceroute to www-cctld.l.goo…
If I search for something where I might expect a regionally-customised result, like "newspaper", I get "The Sun", "The New York Times" and "The Guardian" from encrypted.google.com, but I get the SMH, "The Australian", etc. etc. from a regular google.com.au search.