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by ajitk 4802 days ago
Not pertinent to the discussion, but why does some of the links use http://google.com/url?q= prefix for redirecting URLs? Any advantage of doing so instead of directly linking to the posts?
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Because whomever wrote this article was Googling the results (yes, the irony is palpable) and simply copied the URL, which is prefixed in Google's SERP.