Google Just Closed Another Scraping Door. Here's the Cheap Way Around It.

Hook Google Search is rewriting organic result links to google.com/goto?url=…. The destination isn't in the query string anymore — it's an opaque reference you can only resolve by asking Google (read the Location header, don't follow the redirect). As of late August 2026, it shows up consistently when you're logged out or in private mode. If you...