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   Google is acting like a female dog, and I don't mean that in a good way
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Google is being annoying today.

I'm used to doing a search (like, for Miami, Florida [1]) and being able to
copy a link directly from the results page. Occasionally Google will link to
the result through itself, like:

> http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=1&url=http%3A//www.ci.miami.fl.us/&ei=ZXcPQ62OKY78sQH2qfmsCg
>

Annoying when it happens, but if I do the search over again, the results page
will have the links going directly to the results, as in:

> http://www.ci.miami.fl.us/
>

But not today.

Today, no matter how many times I restart my search, clear the cookies, click
on the munged link or what have you, Google is insistent upon returning the
annoying links that are useless to blogging. And to make matters worse,
there's JavaScript in the results page to munge the status bar at the bottom
of the browser (in Firefox [2], hoving over a link will show the URL in the
status bar) so it's not readily apparent what's going on.

Come on Google, cut it out! You, of all companies, are supposed to be above
such things …

[1] http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Miami%2C+Florida&btnG=Google+Search
[2] http://www.mozilla.org/products/firefox/central.html

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