Google, please stop redirecting my search results
For a few weeks now Google has been passing all the links on their search results through a redirect. This only happens on my main PC and is probably some kind of experiment by Google.
There are so many times when I want to cut and paste a link from the search results into an email or blog post and all that happens is I get a huge long url. In the end I have to visit the web page and copy the url from the address bar – its getting pretty annoying.
So, please can somebody at Google turn this feature off for me. You know my IP address by now, if not you can probably find out.
Hopefully this will turn up on one of Matt Cutts reputation monitoring searches and he can sort it out.
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I thought that was annoying myself. Like you said it makes it difficult to copy urls from Google results. Of course Yahoo is the same way.
bestoptimized August 13, 2007 8:45 pm | Reply
Guess is their way to know what did you click in order to store it on their database
Anyway, it’s better to “Mark” with the mouse and then copy-paste… Else, “Copying Shortcut” will make you get that strange google string as URL
Regards from Spain
Paquito.
http://paquito4ever.blogspot.com
Paquito August 13, 2007 10:06 pm | Reply
Delete your Google cookies and it should be gone. Also Google does this when you enable the search history.
MartÃn August 13, 2007 10:24 pm | Reply
Hey! The same happen to me. I tried deleting cookies, but nothing happened.
Thomas C. August 14, 2007 1:09 am | Reply
I am sick and tired of businesses deciding FOR ME what it is I really want or need. Why not try assuming I want what I asked for? I have trashed my Google toolbars on everything, and I will no longer use Google. Wake up Google!
Jeffrey August 31, 2007 11:05 pm | Reply
Yea…drives me crazy cant get rid of it. I might give in and try a Mac if this stuff keeps happening.
Tonya November 26, 2007 11:56 pm | Reply
No luck with the Mac hon! I am sitting here on my Mac trying to figure out why every bloody search I do in Google is redirected to the most random places. I mean completely unrelated topics, and to add insult to injury I have to hit back many times to get back to my original search page or I will be redirected to another redirect. To rub even more salt in the wounds my little brother is sitting right next to me (literally) on his Mac and is not having the same problem no matter where he searches. We tested by googling the same places over and over again.
Sigh; it is really annoying
Jah Hendrix July 13, 2008 6:49 am |
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