At some point, google search results stopped linking directly to the destination, instead, they changed to point at http://www.google.com/url?BIGUGLYMESS, which I normally don't mind, but when the url links to some resource you want the URL for that your webbrowser downloads, it's quite annoying.
~/$ python
Python 2.7.2+ (default, Oct 4 2011, 20:06:09)
[GCC 4.6.1] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import urllib
>>> urllib.unquote('https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fep2012.europython.eu%2Fmedia%2Fconference%2Fslides%2F5-years-of-bad-ideas.pdf&ei=gF5NT5j0DbCasgLp94Qh&usg=AFQjCNG38H3baMjpc9vw68G_mP8JpBAVSA&cad=rja')
'https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCcQFjAA&url=https://ep2012.europython.eu/media/conference/slides/5-years-of-bad-ideas.pdf&ei=gF5NT5j0DbCasgLp94Qh&usg=AFQjCNG38H3baMjpc9vw68G_mP8JpBAVSA&cad=rja'
>>>
Bleh.
