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by amalakar 4983 days ago
Well google search has been doing this for ages. If you hover over the search results links it would show the url of the page, but if you click on that it goes to a google url which then gets redirected to the url you see. Google does this so that they can keep track of which link you clicked. Other search engine probably does the same, I haven't verified though.