Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results

google.com/goto: Google's anti-scraping update What's happening Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=... instead of exposing the destination URL directly in the HTML. When you click a result, Google redirects you to the real page. The url parameter uses a custom, Google-specific encoding. It is not a plain base64 of the target URL. In practice, it looks like an op...