I am so sick of google's search result urls with tracking info

[J-Mac]

Excellent find J-Mac -- GoogleMonkeyR works quite well! (took me a while to find that the options dialog is available under the upper right Gear menu on search results screen). 

-mouser (July 16, 2011, 01:24 AM)

Best part is - and I have never seen this in a GM script before - that when you click on the Settings icon and open the GoogleMonkeyR settings, at the lower left where it normally shows "History-Prefs -..." it will show any updates to the script and offers to install them directly from there. Pretty cool actually.

Jim

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[cyberdiva]

in newer versions of firefox (versions 4 & 5), the statusbar is hidden by default. you need to install an add-on to bring back the status bar.

-lanux128 (July 16, 2011, 02:45 AM)

Yes, it's hidden by default, but you don't need an add-on to get it back.  It has simply been renamed "add-on bar."  If you click on View-->Toolbars and put a check mark next to Add-on Bar, the status bar will appear and remain.

[urlwolf]

Mouser, I don't think you use opera, but just in case:
https://addons.opera...rect/1.0/?display=en

[benhenry]

Have you ever tried Scroogle? http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

 I've been using it for a coupla years now; and I like it so much that I donated...
But the donation doesn't necessarily go to the operators of Scroogle. You can pick your amount and favorite charity!

I forgot to mention that it is explained at the top-level domain: http://www.scroogle.org/

-Ben

[J-Mac]

Have you ever tried Scroogle? http://www.scroogle.org/scraper.html

 I've been using it for a coupla years now; and I like it so much that I donated...

-Ben

-benhenry (July 20, 2011, 06:23 AM)

Ben,

Does Scroogle just pass on your search terms and then return whatever Google returns? I guess the really important question (to me) is: Will my searches through Scroogle still be subject to Google's asinine restructuring/respelling of my search terms?  (Which I obviously hate with much passion!) I have a feeling that it does since it appears that it just passes info to and from Google, eliminating only the tracking aspect of it.

Thank you.

Jim

[benhenry]

Ben,

Does Scroogle just pass on your search terms and then return whatever Google returns? I guess the really important question (to me) is: Will my searches through Scroogle still be subject to Google's asinine restructuring/respelling of my search terms?  (Which I obviously hate with much passion!) I have a feeling that it does since it appears that it just passes info to and from Google, eliminating only the tracking aspect of it.

Thank you.

Jim

-J-Mac (July 20, 2011, 09:20 AM)

Hi Jim... I'm not sure if this will apply to in-depth searches; and I avoid google, so I'm not too familiar with the restructuring/respelling. But here is what
resulted when I intentionally misspelled "receive" as "recieve" (which I am always doing anyway). The first screenshot is what I entered. The second screenshot
shows the search term in black bold type at the upper left. I think the search terms you input through Scroogle are unmolested. 

-Ben

[nosh]

Whoa! Revolutionary new search engine! Will NOT track you!
[link]

[gonetomorrow]

Anyone know of a firefox or other addon to get rid of this garbage?

-mouser (July 13, 2011, 02:51 PM)

Try https://ssl.scroogle.org/index.html    Better yet, make a search plugin for FF.  Or get it from http://mycroft.mozde...gle.org%2Findex.html
  Hope this is helpful.

[lanux128]

adding one more GM script to the roster: Google Search No Evil Link Redirects.

Script Summary: This script transforms evil Google Search result redirects to take place on left click only (so that you can copy the URL with a right click or avoid the redirect with a middle click) or removes them altogether.

• http://userscripts.o...g/scripts/show/89694

[kyrathaba]

Now using scripts "Search No Evil..." and "Tracking Be Gone..."

Thanks for the recommendations!