# Google search links shift to opaque redirect format, Autom says

_Published Saturday, September 12, 2026 at 4:06 PM EDT · Products, Infrastructure · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Google Search is rewriting organic-result links to a google.com/goto redirect format rather than exposing destination URLs in result HTML, Autom.dev reported. The vendor said the redirect's URL parameter cannot be decoded offline and that resolving each result requires a request to Google to retrieve its Location header. Autom said it updated its search pipeline to return destination URLs without requiring customer integration changes.

## Sources

- [autom.dev](https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links)

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Published: 2026-09-12T20:06:25.476Z
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