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Stonehenge is one the UK's most visited tourist attractions – and one of the world's most enigmatic ancient monuments. People come from all over the world to stare at the iconic stone pillars and wonder how, and why, they were put in place.
The site may be instantly recognisable, but there is far more to it than first meets the eye. As archaeologists study this area, mystery after mystery unfolds. But a coherent story may be beginning to emerge.
That has been particularly true over the last decade. Researchers have been studying not just the monument itself, but the area around it, hoping to find clues in this intriguing landscape of prehistoric monuments.
Underground imaging and excavation have revealed that Stonehenge was once part of a complicated network of structures: ancient burial mounds, unknown settlements, processional routes and even gold-adorned burials. The finds paint a picture of a far more mysterious and elaborate Neolithic and Bronze Age world than previously thought.
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170713-why-stonehenge-was-built
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @03:59AM (3 children)
The link contains gws_rd=ssl
Maybe you (or your ISP) have ports blocked.
Any way you look at it, it's a pretty sorry hyperlink.
First, it's pretty stupid and useless to include where you came from in a Google link.
Next, the S/N comments engine has striped %22 (and other pseudo ASCII) from hyperlinks for quite some time now.
If you hover over the link, you'll see that it doesn't contain anything resembling quote marks (as the link text does).
Apparently, AC#540844 never noticed that.
The way to link to Google and use phrases most effectively[1] is via their VERBATIM Search.
Append &tbs=li:1 to your search string and use dots between words of a phrase.
https://www.google.com/search?tbs=li:1&q=than.previously.thought [google.com]
If you're not sure whether a thing is 1 word or hyphenated or 2 words--or you want to cover all the bases, use a hyphen between those things.
e.g. data-base will find database, data-base, and data base.
Caveat: Especially if you have stuff in your search string other than the phrase, be advised:
All words must now be EXACT; Verbatim Search will not correct spelling nor find plurals|alternate forms of words|synonyms.
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You can also do the search once from wherever you do Google searches, then click on Verbatim for the fancy way.
[1] Before Google "improved" (dumbed down) its search engine several years ago, it used to be a lot easier to get good results on the 1st try.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday July 19 2017, @04:54AM (2 children)
Indeed, your link works. What does "gws_rd=ssl" mean?
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:10AM (1 child)
My old bookmark was
If You Leave ''gws_rd'' In Your Search URLs, You Are An Idiot --Elechi Emekobum _ JUGOtech [jugotech.com]
All I'm getting there now is a blank page.
When I pull up my blocked item list, I see 1 item (a script).
The vainglorious may want to try it and report back. Not I.
Additionally, The Wayback Machine now requires scripts to get results.
As such, what I used to feed into archive.org (from the Address Bar), I now feed into archive.li and let them run the scripts.
After a bunch of churning that archive.li had to do on all the stupid shit (scripts, webfonts, image chintz) on The Wayback Machine's page, I got bupkis from that this time.
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GWS==Google Web Server.
RD==redirect
Best I've been able to determine about what follows that is that it's a path, typically crossing national boundaries.
In this case, it appears that that our friend the AC did his search via Secure Sockets Layer.
It appears that others following the link will take the same route, thus my speculation about blocked ports.
The amount of crap folks used to re-post in their Google links was pretty outrageous: OS version, browser version, etc.
That was clearly tracking data.
Haven't seen that for a while.
There's some speculation that the GWS stuff is also tracking data according to James here. [stackexchange.com]
I don't think so.
The answer by asheeshr, above that, is slightly useful, however.
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(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Wednesday July 19 2017, @07:27PM
Thanks for the information. As far as I know, there are no blocked ports here; however I notice that the google.com to google.de redirection of Google also changed this from ssl to cr (whatever that might mean).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.