What if you want to include a link to a Google search results page and the URL needs to be short? Instead of copying the URL from the address bar and including a lot of unnecessary parameters, you can manually build a simple URL:
http://www.google.com/search?q=test
Obviously, you should replace "test" with your query. If there are multiple keywords, replace space with "+" like this:
http://www.google.com/search?q=test+my+speed
You could drop "www." from the URL:
http://google.com/search?q=test
Google now uses AJAX to load search results, so you can replace "search?" with "#":
http://google.com/#q=test
You can even drop the slash after "google.com" and the URL works in most desktop browsers, but not in mobile browsers. You could also replace "google.com" with "google.ca" or other Google domains, but you'll get different results.
Fortunately, Google owns the googl.com domain and you can use this URL:
http://googl.com/#q=test
February 28, 2013
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g.co/#q=test does not work sadly. :D
ReplyDeleteg.co/test#q=test does however
DeleteTechnically, if you've re-based your links to http://, you can omit that also... but it does require you to modify your page source to allow that, and some browsers (MS) have issues with it.
ReplyDeleteor just use goo.gl to shorten the URLs?
ReplyDeleteThat's what I was going to say... goo.gl links surely must be the shortest in general, since the query can still be quite long.
DeleteTwo others that work are http://gogle.com/#q=test http://google.co/#q=test
ReplyDeleteIf you're ok with using third party services, gog.is/test works too.
ReplyDeleteawesome
DeleteThis one works :
ReplyDeletegoogl/q=test
Is there a simple way to specify an image search ??
ReplyDeletegoogle.com#q=test&tbm=isch
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