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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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If you type in, say, "random search" into Google, you get Wikipedia as your first link.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_search
If you click on that link in the search results, get to Wikipedia, then click back (to take you to Google), the first link becomes:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CFgQFjAA&url=http%3A %2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FRandom_search&ei=m DIjUMm0LKKFywGs8YGIBQ&usg=AFQjCNFwnCiXBS429Wl6EVKI FkGPLTFCvg
Anyone know what's up with that?
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Moderator  Join Date: Aug 2001
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Google has been inserting this garbage into the links for a long time now, and it has nothing to do with clicking back to Google after following the link.
Try this...
Do your "random search" thing at Google. Don't click on the Wikipedia link...just do a "copy link", then paste it into your url field. See that? All that Google referral/tracking garbage is already there. Firefox reveals this when you mouse-over the link. For some reason, Safari doesn't show the real code when you mouse-over.
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Mac Elite
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i've recently made duckduckgo my default search engine. doesn't seem to add tracking junk.
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one post closer to five stars
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Games Meister  Join Date: Aug 2009
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I noticed it was doing that crap for YouTube links, but I figured it was because they owned YouTube. Guess not.
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Moderator Join Date: Aug 2001
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I use DuckDuckGo for a lot of my searches, too. Increasingly more so as Google's search results seem to be going down in quality.
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what is this google people speak of? i use altavista! hahaha
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Jun 2001
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Originally Posted by Thorzdad 
Google has been inserting this garbage into the links for a long time now, and it has nothing to do with clicking back to Google after following the link.
Try this...
Do your "random search" thing at Google. Don't click on the Wikipedia link...just do a "copy link", then paste it into your url field. See that? All that Google referral/tracking garbage is already there. Firefox reveals this when you mouse-over the link. For some reason, Safari doesn't show the real code when you mouse-over.
This doesn't seem to happen on mobile Safari, I've only been able to get it to happen by tapping "back"
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