I have to do research for school. I’ve been told many a time don’t use Google. Now Google is giving me a reason to be pissed off.

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?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=3&ved=0CBcQFjAC&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perforce.com%2Fperforce%2Fconferences%2Fus%2F2009%2FPresentations%2FCohen-CodeReview-slides.pdf&ei=XJWZS4-IMIGSNpSexHo&usg=AFQjCNE2L5ejvkMYs4RMS4mZu9v7nZO9iA

Are you joking? What is the purpose of this? Is it to make me google it every time? Is it to track when I click on the results? Did some asshole think this protects IP? Rather than reformatting that URL for my records I might decide using the library is easier.