Scriptlets for URL preprocessing
I pointed towards the idea of a javascript based snippet of code that would clean the ugly google URLs in the result page to ease copy-pasting of them. We can probably get Google to do it just under the threat to bypass completely their redirect scheme...
<br /><br />Excerpt from <a href="http://memojo.com/~sgala/blog/2007/08/28/Scriptlets-for-URL-preprocessing">Boxes and Glue</a>