Google recently removed URLs from their search results, so it’s now more difficult to see what page your about to visit or find a site by name.
The most likely reason for the change is that it makes it harder for users to distinguish between ads and real search results.
https://twitter.com/craigmod/status/1219644556003565568
(Currently at the top of Hacker News: "Every Google result now looks like an ad ".)
I created a quick browser extension yesterday to add the URLs back. Firefox approved it immediately, but Google rejected it as “spam”. (The source code is below — obviously it doesn’t have any spam in it.)
Here’s the Firefox version:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-engines-show-me-urls/
Here’s the source code if anyone wants to improve it:
I’ll try to resubmit it to the Chrome extension store, but I’m not sure if they will approve it.
It needs some improvements — feel free to make pull requests on the Github issues. The main code is just a few JavaScript functions in the src/content_script.js file.
Screenshot:
