This company gets worse and worse.
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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?
#72my job involves copy & pasting URLs into mails, IMs, documents, .. all the time, that's why my google chrome omnibar triggered default search URL is i.e.: https://www.google.com/search?q=hacker+news&pws=0&hl=en (pws - no personalization, hl = language) how to: Google Chrome Settings -> Section "Search" Button "Manage Search Engines" -> Overlay "Other Search Engines" -> Scroll Down -> Add new search engine with the UR…
This is fantastic advice. Thank you.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#73One side effect of these is that it's hard to figure out what the minimal parameters are needed to search when you're trying to create a keyword search (or similar task). E.g., I can type "gna harry carey" in my address bar to search in the Google News Archive, but they've broken my URLs several times and sometimes the fix was far from intuitive. (Right now, for gna I use "https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws... )
Since we're on the topic of Google searches, have other people noticed that advanced searches have become quite a bit worse over the last couple of years? The basic search is often quite astounding in how it gets what you want at the top of the results, but using advanced operators often produces quite strange results.
This is even more obvious in the non-web searches, such as Google News, Google Groups, patents, and Google Books. There you can see a result, but then if you add a restriction to the search, such as date range, or "group:" or "ininventor:", it won't find any results--even the ones you just saw which match new criteria.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
What redirect? And, did you even read the comment that you're replying to? 1. There isn't a redirect from that huge link. 2. The post replying to just explained a theory that doesn't involve tracking: the URL needs to be that long to be unique enough to specify a page with the exact same search results.
Perform the following experiment: 1. Visit https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews 2. Mouse over first result, note the url news.ycombinator.com shown in your browser's status bar. 3. Right-click the first result and 'copy link location' 4. Check what's on your clipboard. For me it's www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&ei=fRb5UNSeD-…
You can use this addon:
http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/121923
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
What redirect? And, did you even read the comment that you're replying to? 1. There isn't a redirect from that huge link. 2. The post replying to just explained a theory that doesn't involve tracking: the URL needs to be that long to be unique enough to specify a page with the exact same search results.
Perform the following experiment: 1. Visit https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews 2. Mouse over first result, note the url news.ycombinator.com shown in your browser's status bar. 3. Right-click the first result and 'copy link location' 4. Check what's on your clipboard. For me it's www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&ei=fRb5UNSeD-…
As janzer said, that's not the URL patio11 is talking about, however this redirect is here for a good reason too. It's needed to preserve the search terms in the referrer header for links that are triggered by JavaScript - which is needed if webmasters want to see which search terms are driving traffic to their sites.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#76Easy to work around, no plugins or silliness require. Get to Google via Duck Duck Go as your intermediary. Either from your search bar (if DDG is your default search engine), or directly from the DDG search page, search for !g testing !g tells DDG to send the query to google, and you land on the google results page (not DDG), at the following URL: https://encrypted.google.com/search?hl=en&q=testing Even if you prefer…
I am really interested in this, any tips for automation on chrome so I can use the omni bar and don't have to type !g ?
I just altered the Google query to only send a q= field. My search URIs look like this: https://www.google.nl/search?q=test.
Re: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now?
#77Earlier quoted context omitted.
Perform the following experiment: 1. Visit https://www.google.com/search?q=hackernews 2. Mouse over first result, note the url news.ycombinator.com shown in your browser's status bar. 3. Right-click the first result and 'copy link location' 4. Check what's on your clipboard. For me it's www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CDIQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.ycombinator.com%2F&ei=fRb5UNSeD-…
As janzer said, that's not the URL patio11 is talking about, however this redirect is here for a good reason too. It's needed to preserve the search terms in the referrer header for links that are triggered by JavaScript - which is needed if webmasters want to see which search terms are driving traffic to their sites.
I presume it's also handy for tracking click-throughs.