Google is really starting to piss me off.

They have implemented this annoying thing of not always giving direct links to items in my search results-- so if I do my usual thing of right-clicking on a link and hitting "copy link address", when I paste the link it gives me crap like this:

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=friberg%20and%20sundstrom%20swing%20jazz&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CE8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww-scf.usc.edu%2F~ise575%2Fd%2Fpresentations%2F8-fribergsundstrom_schankler.pdf&ei=0KC7T4KeGIagiQLi3MChDg&usg=AFQjCNFaVA5zSutyEInxjvwneBtFeBPsjg

...which is not the actual URL of the site. Worse, the link was to a pdf file, and when I use Opera's handy "right click>save to download folder" option, it just downloads an html file of that stupid Google link, not the pdf.

I don't know what Google is playing at-- I guess they want to be the sole gateway to the entire Internet. At this point I highly recommend switching to Duckduckgo as your default search engine;  it appears to be the choice du jour for Linux people, and is basically what Google was before they started avalanching features all over me.