Comments on: Oh Google, WTF?

By: Stelian

Stelian — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 13:42:13 +0000

> When the search results come back with PDF files – I don’t get to see
> the link to the PDF where it actually sits, the link I get is in this form:

> http://www.google.ca/url?...

> Are you joking?

If the appearance of the links is what pisses you off, the solution above should suffice. If you need to right click on a link, refresh the search results page, the original link will come back.

However, if what troubles you is that you are unsure whether Google makes the best effort at running your search as quickly as possible, nobody can do it better, can they?

Google relies enormously on the feedback from your clicks, here’s an interesting article on it:

http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/02/ff_google_algorithm/all/1

By: Andrew Smith

Andrew Smith — Wed, 28 Apr 2010 04:51:52 +0000

That doesn’t seem to help me. And actually I learned that all of the Google search results are like that. What you see in the status bar is faked in by javascript, if you right-click on a results link, dismiss the menu, and hover over the link again – you’ll see the real URL.

I guess they do it for tracking purposes, that really sucks.

By: Stelian

Stelian — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 21:22:37 +0000

Go to Google Search Settings, Check the ‘Do not filter my search results’ button under ‘Safe Search Filtering’. You will get raw links as opposed to filtered links.