Comments on: What is up with the insane long Google results URL now? http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/ Hopefully some useful content, information, hacks, and solutions. Wed, 15 May 2013 21:55:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: cra http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1132 cra Mon, 21 Jan 2013 15:43:08 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1132 I believe the urls from google look like that at least a year already. One possible “positive” answer is that google wants to check first if the site being reported as “bad” or “malware”.

]]> By: Shrinivasan Neelamegam http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1033 Shrinivasan Neelamegam Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:27:24 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1033 I found something similar a while ago, but couldn’t find the root cause, posted a question in linked in to find the answer but I dint have more information on it.

http://www.linkedin.com/answers/technology/information-technology/information-security/TCH_ITS_ISC/949820-22583317?browseIdx=0&sik=1358526398009&goback=%2Eamq

]]> By: mergy http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1028 mergy Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:41:39 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1028 Yes, but if we do that, how can Google monetize my search? I worry about them. ;)

]]> By: Matthew Persico http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1027 Matthew Persico Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:31:45 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1027 further more, you can skip the search box entirely. all you need is

https://www.google.com/search?q=

with your search term following the =. use + for spaces

]]> By: Matthew Persico http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1026 Matthew Persico Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:29:47 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1026 cut everything out after the last appearance of your search term and the url still works. send that shorter one

]]> By: mergy http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1025 mergy Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:17:00 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1025 Appreciate the email earlier today. Thanks again.

]]> By: Niko http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1024 Niko Fri, 18 Jan 2013 14:15:22 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1024 I’m also interested in this discussion!

]]> By: mergy http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1023 mergy Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:54:02 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1023 Thanks. From comments on HN and other places, It just really makes the whole thing so unwieldy for everyone. You would think they could get what they needed via server logs vs. messing with the portability of the results URL.

]]> By: Dvkch http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1022 Dvkch Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:50:43 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1022 It has been a while, the URL has been constantly evolving, I guess most parameters can be identified: browser, geoloc, interface language, clicked on search or used return, etc. But I am not sure why they are this important for them. “For a better user experience” they’ll say ;)

]]> By: mergy http://mergy.org/2013/01/what-is-up-with-the-insane-long-google-results-url-now/comment-page-1/#comment-1021 mergy Fri, 18 Jan 2013 13:33:45 +0000 http://mergy.org/?p=22844#comment-1021 Fixed comments, but most are just using probably just using HN comments over here >> http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5075672

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