Google Search

• Search within a site for something:
  Suppose you want to search for "NanoVNA"
  but you only want to search the site
  http://www.nanovna.com

  Open Google search engine,
  and in search field, type:

  site: http://www.nanovna.com NanoVNA

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• Avoid browsing tracking:
  • If you do a Google search, then mouse-over one of the links presented,
    in your bottom preview bar you'll see the target URL.

    However when you actually click to go to that URL, you'll see in your browser URL field
    that there is a lot of other stuff in the URL besides the actual https of the target site.

    This is presumably codes that allow Google to track and profile your web browsing.
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  • To avoid this:
    If instead of directly left-clicking on the link provided on the Google search page,
    do right-click copy link, on your desired link,
    and paste it into a text editor,
    then extract the desired target site URL by

    Removing all the extraneous crap:

    From the beginning, delete all (starting with https://google...) up to (but not including) https somewhere in the middle of the URL string.
    Then replace all the following three-char codes starting with " % " (eg. %3A) with corresponding single-char (eg. " : ")
    %3A is " : "
    %2F is " / "
    %3F is " ? "
    %3D is " = "
    (these are the only ones I've mapped so far...)

    Then replace five-char codes starting with " %25 " with whatever single-char they represent:
    %25 is (apparently) the code for what follows being ascii (in hex)
    so eg. %2520 is a <space>

    Then delete " &usg " and all remaining.

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