{"id":133,"date":"2010-03-11T20:23:11","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T01:23:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=133"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:55:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:55:39","slug":"oh-google-wtf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2010\/03\/11\/oh-google-wtf\/","title":{"rendered":"Oh Google, WTF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have to do research for school. I&#8217;ve been told many a time don&#8217;t use Google. Now Google is giving me a reason to be pissed off.<\/p>\n<p>When the search results come back with PDF files &#8211; I don&#8217;t get to see the link to the PDF where it actually sits, the link I get is in this form:<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.google.ca\/url?sa=t&#038;source=web&#038;ct=res&#038;cd=3&#038;ved=0CBcQFjAC&#038;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.perforce.com%2Fperforce%2Fconferences%2Fus%2F2009%2FPresentations%2FCohen-CodeReview-slides.pdf&#038;ei=XJWZS4-IMIGSNpSexHo&#038;usg=AFQjCNE2L5ejvkMYs4RMS4mZu9v7nZO9iA<\/p>\n<p>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 <a href=\"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2009\/01\/24\/bloody-scholarly-papers\/\">using the library<\/a> is easier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have to do research for school. I&#8217;ve been told many a time don&#8217;t use Google. Now Google is giving me a reason to be pissed off. When the search results come back with PDF files &#8211; I don&#8217;t get to see the link to the PDF where it actually sits, the link I get &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-133","6":"format-standard","7":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":634,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133\/revisions\/634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}