> The proper URL is the green line under the title.
If the URL is short enough that works fine, but if it's longer you can't copy the URL from there, because Google will insert an ellipsis in the middle of the long URL. For example, an article I was searching for just now shows up on the green line as ssdi.di.fct.unl.pt/masters/mcl/content/.../Robinson-CL2000.pdf. Can't copy that, and can't get the original URL from the right-click either!
Isn't this occasional problem worth having in return for better search results? How often you copy the link URL instead of checking what's on the other side?
How exactly improving the relevance of the returned results is not the best for their users?
> makes it slower
257 ms here. Not that much compared to the 2 seconds the actual server took to start returning the data.
> hides the true links
The proper URL is the green line under the title. Here it says "www.ics.uci.edu/~franz/Site/pubs-pdf/BC03.pdf".