Hi, I am most peeved by Google's recent change that make it impossible to copy URLs or Save Link As... from the search results pages. So I wrote a couple scripts to ease the process a bit. The basic script and the pair as a whole are named for an initialism for Stupid Google Redirect URL: SGRU (which you should feel free to pronounce as "screw"). - sgru [stupid-Google-Redirect-URL] Convert a SGRU to a real URL. If no command-line parameter is given, the contents of the Klipboard is used. - sgruget [stupid-Google-Reirect-URL] Retrieve a the contents of a SGRU using wget. If no command-line parameter is given, the contents of the Klipboard is used. - klip Manipulate the Klipboard from the command line For me, the most common use is to copy-link one of these URLs switch to a shell and run either sgru (if I need the URL) or sgruget (if I want to download). One thing to keep in mind is that wget preserves the modification time returned by the server while simply saving a URL from Firefox does not. So if you're used to seeing newly downloaded files at the top of a time-ordered directory listing, this may surprise you. Although I haven't done it yet, I think assigning a global keyboard accelerator to the default (no-argument) "sgru" invocation would be useful, especially if you like to copy URLs from Google search results pages often. Randall Schulz