Google Redirect (Beta)

google-redirect.md

Google Redirect (Beta)

Google has a https://www.google.com/url?q= endpoint that redirects to q, and it turns out you can nest these recursively and it'll 302 redirect you to each one in succession.

So here's the the most inefficient link to Google that will fit in a Tweet:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Furl%253Fq%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.google.com%25252Furl%25253Fq%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww.google.com

Here's some Clojure I used to make the link:

(def url "https://www.google.com")
(defn redirect [s]
  (str url "/url?q=" (java.net.URLEncoder/encode s)))
(->> (iterate redirect url)
     (take-while #(<= (count %) 280))
     (last))
=> "https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2Furl%3Fq%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.google.com%252Furl%253Fq%253Dhttps%25253A%25252F%25252Fwww.google.com%25252Furl%25253Fq%25253Dhttps%2525253A%2525252F%2525252Fwww.google.com"