Randall, WRT the Firefox extension you suggested: I think there might be something like what you're thinking of already. I use Greasemonkey (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748), which is a Javascript re-writer, and along with it one of the scripts from http://userscripts.org, i.e., something called "GoogleMonkeyR" (http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/9310). Among other things it does like multi-column layout of the search results, etc., it also adds a "Trackless" link to each of the search results with all the Google-cruft removed from the URL. //ted Randall R Schulz wrote the following on 06/08/2009 06:37 PM:
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
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