In chrome I set my default search engine to "Googol" with the search query: http://google.com/search?q=%s. Seemed to fix it for me
What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
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Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#12In chrome I set my default search engine to "Googol" with the search query: http://google.com/search?q=%s . Seemed to fix it for me
but then you have to tell everyone who visits your site to do this...
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#13I don't believe this is a new development.
I think it used to happen only if your User-Agent parsed a few specific ways. I did just recently notice the broken "Copy Link Location" in places where it wasn't before.
All the more reason to stick with DDG.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#14In Chrome, you can lessen the pain by using the "goo.gl" (or similar) extension.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#15In chrome I set my default search engine to "Googol" with the search query: http://google.com/search?q=%s . Seemed to fix it for me
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#16Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#17CoralCDN link:
http://mergy.org.nyud.net/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane...
I couldn't get through to the main site. Fortunately someone had fetched the page over coralcdn at some earlier point. I wonder if someone wrote a proactive coralcdn bot for HN links.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#18Google's search URLs have slowly been creeping up in length over years. Some of the parameters like hl are for user interface control (in this case, langauge). Others like sourceid are for broad tracking of who's using Google how. And lately there are many more nonces mostly related to tracking individual users, Google+, instant search, etc. Many of those change based on who you are logged in as.
Google is also responsible for all the utm_source spam in Feedburner and other tracked URLs. And they are the ones behind the #! / _escaped_fragment_ nonsense. Google's first search product worked so well mostly because it relied on standard URLs as unique pointers to web pages. It's a shame they're breaking URLs in so many ways now.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#19But I really want it to stop. I hate not being able to just "copy link address" off of the results page
I've just started using Undirect in Chrome. Seems pretty good.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/undirect/dohbiijnj...