Google De-crufting

Metafilter Googlecruft Demo

This script searches for every link on the page, finds any that contain Google URLs and scans for the search term(s). It then re-writes the links in a simplified form without all the extra googlecruft. It should skip over any non-Google links or any Google links without search terms.

Sample links with googlecruft to be removed:

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Install this script as a bookmarklet to scan any web page for links to de-cruft.

anchors=document.getElementsByTagName("a");queryString={};for(i=0;i<anchors.length;i++){anchor=anchors[i].href;isgoogle=anchor.search("google.");if(isgoogle<0)continue;q="search?";qry=anchor.search(q);glu=(qry>-1)?"?":"/#";parts=anchors[i].href.split(glu);base=parts[0];anchors[i].href.replace(new%20RegExp("([^?=&]+)(=([^&]*))?","g"),function($0,$1,$2,$3){queryString[$1]=$3;});query=queryString['q'];if(query!=undefined)anchors[i].href=base+glu+"q="+query;queryString={};}
Source for bookmarklet