---
title: "Google Search annoys me with useless links"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/13/google-search-annoys-me-with-useless-links.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/6/13/google-search-annoys-me-with-useless-links.html"
published: "2007-06-13T12:42:20"
updated: "2007-06-13T12:42:20"
tags: []
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "I tried to search a great book in google. I got the result I wanted. I right clicked and copied the link. here's what I copied:…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Google Search annoys me with useless links

By Roy Osherove June 13, 2007

**Historical article** · Originally published June 13, 2007; technical details may be outdated.

I tried to search a great book in google. I got the result I wanted. I right clicked and copied the link.

here's what I copied:

[http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWorking-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin%2Fdp%2F0131177052&ei=QkdwRublHpaWQbvXlKED&usg=AFQjCNEFklighJ3ilFfGC7AVeyVuNW6Dfw&sig2=yge94gaRSL3due7FzIPQvw](http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWorking-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin%2Fdp%2F0131177052&ei=QkdwRublHpaWQbvXlKED&usg=AFQjCNEFklighJ3ilFfGC7AVeyVuNW6Dfw&sig2=yge94gaRSL3due7FzIPQvw "http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FWorking-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin%2Fdp%2F0131177052&ei=QkdwRublHpaWQbvXlKED&usg=AFQjCNEFklighJ3ilFfGC7AVeyVuNW6Dfw&sig2=yge94gaRSL3due7FzIPQvw")

instead of:

[http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052](https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052 "http://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Robert-Martin/dp/0131177052")

The reason: I was signed into google to check mail, and when you sign in. google tracks what you search and record it, so they also turn all the links into useless garbage. I actually have to select the link text underneath the search result to get the real link, which sucks big time.

Google really can be annoying sometimes.


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