Re: URIs within URIs: google.com/url?q= et al.

Ivan Shmakov wrote:

On 2024-11-28, Mike Spencer wrote:

  [Cross-posting to news:comp.infosystems.www.misc just in case,
but setting Followup-To: comp.misc still.  Feel free to disregard,
though; if anything, I'll be monitoring both groups for some
time for responses.]
   > Here's a curiosity:
   > Google also sends all of your clicks on search results back through
  > Google. 

Probably because they wouldn't trust a browser to honour the ping attribute of an anchor tag, that was designed for tracking?
<https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLAnchorElement/ping>