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[quote=scambuster]
I'm anti-google so I've been using startpage.com as my primary search but I still access google through various free web based proxy servers and I've seen the junk they're adding to the results pages now. I used to use scroogle too. BTW, Ixquick and Startpage are the same company but ixquick results are more 'meta' while startpage are mostly anonymized google results.

In the google example above, the url redirection and ei= ved= usg= parameters in the search results are a way to apply tracking and other things to users with javascript disabled. Evil javascript would normally do all kinds of quiet logging and redirecting in the background but when a user has JS disabled goog is forced to run you through an obvious redirect through their servers and apply extra parameters to the url, due to their insatiable need to log and analyze your clicks and perhaps to provide referrer info for analytics and vile marketers.

Info on the redirector and the usg value,
usg is apparently a kind of signature for an indexed url:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Hackers-Find-Method-to-Bypass-Google-Redirect-Notice-219150.shtml

ei value talked about here, 
it's apparently unique to each page of results and probably uniquely identifies you and your session forever
http://www.razzed.com/2009/02/12/analysis-of-google-outbound-link-tracking/

I don't know what the ved parameter does, it probably means Vital Essential and Desirable.

Tools and techniques for url cleaning:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/google-search-link-fix/
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/redirect-cleaner/
http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/22291/turning-off-google-search-results-indirection/22313#22313[/quote]

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