Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results
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- Previous: 7 days earlier · Google has started encrypting its search results' URLs with "goto?=" links for logged out sessions and/or scrapers ( 28 August, 2026 )
What happened
Google is rolling out google.com/goto redirect URLs on SERPs. Here is what changed, why it targets scrapers, and how Autom updated its Google Search API.
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