STUPID Google Search Results

[JHZR2]

Seriously???!?

Please tell me how you pull a document URL from a google search result.

Say Im searching for something that turns out to be a PDF document.

Google links to it on the firefox result as:

www.address.com/more_stuff...file.pdf

So I cant copy the text itself, as it isnt a full URL.

Right click it, and either it is filled with %20 type coding all over, or has some ridiculous amount of google result garbage atttached to the URL. Copy the URL and it is not the pure address either, but rather the google click through.

If you want to cite something, you need the address, not the stupid google URL.

How do I just get the full address of the file that google is linking to, without having to go and pull down the html source and do all kinds of special steps?

Thanks!

 

[jaj]

I just click the link and then copy the location from the address bar on the browser.

 

[JHZR2]

Originally Posted By: jaj
I just click the link and then copy the location from the address bar on the browser.


PDFs just open up - no embedding in the browser.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Seriously???!?

Please tell me how you pull a document URL from a google search result.

Say Im searching for something that turns out to be a PDF document.

Google links to it on the firefox result as:

www.address.com/more_stuff...file.pdf

So I cant copy the text itself, as it isnt a full URL.

Yeah, I find it pretty annoying. What I do to get around it is do the same search in BING. BING will show you the actual URL for that PDF.

 

[BearZDefect]

In the past year or so, Google has dropped some of favorite google features, like:

1. The real define feature.

2. The option to see their cached copy.


And obfuscating the URL is a real nuisance.

 

[Hokiefyd]

The option to see the cached copy is still there. Mouse over the large right arrow next to the result to load a page preview and the cached option is in there.

I'm not sure what the problem is with pdf files. If you Google "pdf files" you get a number of returns that are actual PDF files. It shows the entire URL in the search result.

 

[Rand]

cant you right click it and hit copy link?

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: Hokiefyd

It shows the entire URL in the search result.

If the URL is somewhat longer, it abbreviates it with ... somewhere in the middle, thus making the whole URL useless.

 

[Quattro Pete]

Originally Posted By: Rand
cant you right click it and hit copy link?

Yeah, but it gets preceded with a whole lot of google inserted gibberish.

 

[DragRace]

https://startpage.com/ or http://duckduckgo.com/

I quit using google. Their new privacy terms are enough to keep me away.

 

[JHZR2]

startpage is enhanced by google...

 

[Triple_Se7en]

I used Google as a search engine for several years -- until last week.
For privacy reasons, I switched to... Ixquick search engine

 

[CivicFan]

Originally Posted By: JHZR2
Seriously???!?

Please tell me how you pull a document URL from a google search result.

Say Im searching for something that turns out to be a PDF document.

Google links to it on the firefox result as:

www.address.com/more_stuff...file.pdf

So I cant copy the text itself, as it isnt a full URL.

Right click it, and either it is filled with %20 type coding all over, or has some ridiculous amount of google result garbage atttached to the URL. Copy the URL and it is not the pure address either, but rather the google click through.

If you want to cite something, you need the address, not the stupid google URL.

How do I just get the full address of the file that google is linking to, without having to go and pull down the html source and do all kinds of special steps?

Thanks!


My browser opens the PDF in the browser so the URL shows up. But if I right-click and copy the file URL from the search results, it copies the google index information, not the URL itself.

this is an interesting problem.

 

[cchase]

I have a bigger issue with Google auto-correcting my searches to mean entirely different things, and even when I over-ride that it will start piece-meal searching my terms.

And yes, the click-throughs are getting more than a little annoying. If I thought there was another option out there, I'd use it.