I guess they’ve been doing this for a few days (weeks?) now, but\nit’s pissing me off so much that it’s compelled me to speak out …<\/p>\n\n
Turn off the freaking URL masquerading!<\/em><\/p>\n\n If you don’t know what I mean, perform\nany Google search<\/a>,\nthen move your mouse over the first link result and check the bottom bar\nthat shows you the URL. Notice that you don’t see the expected;<\/p>\n\n but instead you see;<\/p>\n\n One of my most common uses of Google is to do my search, then right<\/em>-click\non the link result I’m looking for, do “Copy Link Location”, then paste\nthe URL into whatever I happen to be editing; a web page, a blog entry, a report,\nwhatever. Now I either have to dereference<\/em> the URI and copy the\nresulting URL in the browser bar – slowing me down while that happens – or\ncut-and-paste the green partial URL (minus scheme) that the Google search\nresult also gives me – also slowing me down, as I have to highlight the text,\nthen paste it and prepend it with “http:\/\/”. Grrr..<\/p>\n\n Why do you forsake me, Google?<\/em><\/p>\n\n I think I’ll take this opportunity to give\nYahoo search<\/a>\na try … erm, WTF?! They do it too?!<\/p>\n\n P.S. I wonder if\nNelson<\/a>\nhad anything to do with this? 8-)<\/p>\n\n Update;<\/em> interesting, I just noticed this; it’s only the first\nresult that is mangled. Hmm, looks like I’ll have to learn to craft my\nsearches such that what I want shows at #2 …<\/p>\n\n Next update;<\/em> It looks like there’s\nmore to this<\/a>\nthan meets the eye. Also, I’ve hacked together an\nalternative Javascript solution<\/a>\nthat Google could use.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"I guess they’ve been doing this for a few days (weeks?) now, but it’s pissing me off so much that it’s compelled me to speak out … Turn off the freaking URL masquerading! If you don’t know what I mean, perform any Google search, then move your mouse over the first link result and check […]","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markbaker.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\nhttp:\/\/www.faqs.org\/rfcs\/rfc3092.html\n<\/pre>\n\n
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