Long before amp, Google began prefixing search result urls with "google.tld?url=" and adding Google parameters as suffixes such as "sa=", "ved=", etc. Unless I

Long before amp, Google began prefixing search result urls with "google.tld?url=" and adding Google parameters as suffixes such as "sa=", "ved=", etc. Unless I am mistaken this parasitic cruft only serves Google, not end users. Below is quick and dirty program to filter out the above. Replace .com with .cctld as needed. Requirements: cc, lex Usage: curl -o 1.htm https://www.google.com/search?q=xyz yyg < 1.htm > 2.htm your-ad-supported-web-browser 2.htm To compile this I use something like flex -Crfa -8 -i g.l; cc -Wall -pipe lex.yy.c -static -o yyg; Save text below as file g.l Then compile as above. %% [^\12\40-\176] \/url[?]q= "http://www.google.com/gwt\/x?hl=en&amp;u=" "&amp;"[^\"]* %% main(){yylex();} yywrap(){} As for amp, I read that it needs to use iframes (and Javascript). Yikes. We can easily write a program to strip out iframe targets as well as links to Javascript. amphtml does look great in a text-only browser that does not load iframes automatically.