Search results + New Tab + History - shows as google URL

I'm having the exact same problem. Some sites will show their names, but many (most?) just show the URL. It's driving me batty! The history feature of Safari is pretty much useless if all that's shown is a long list of undecipherable URLs.

Anyone out there have any ideas, suggestions, fixes?

Same problem here. History is now useless. Probably a thank you to Google.

Google, is becoming another walled garden. The difference is Apple makes money by selling devices people want. Google makes money through ads. Google could not care less about the user experience with a product that's designed to register clicks as opposed to customer satisfaction.

seriously, are the only people who have noticed this, are the four people here????

what has google done to their search results? history is completley useless now...

I've noticed this too. At first it only happened if you had Google's autosuggest feature turned on, but now it's across the board. I think it's because Google wants to track your browsing history, and also encourage you to sign into iGoogle and use its history feature rather than your browser's.

It's getting to the point where I'll probably start using DuckDuckGo or Bing for most of my routine web searching.

I am having the same problem.

Over here:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/2602117?answerId=12395415022#12395415022

the "correct" answer says "turn off instant search predictions on the google setting page) (at the gear in the upper right hand corner of a fresh page @ www.google.com); allegedly no google log-in is required to hold this setting, but presumably it would hold only until you clear your cookies.

That did not work for me for searches from the search bar or for searches at the main google page.

I checked the problem with Safari extensions off, thinking I might have to eliminate them one by one but that didn't help.

Partial solutions:

A/ When I use Startpage and later close a tabbed page I reached via Startpage's search results, Safari's history feature works correctly. Take it as another good reason to use google as little as possible. I use Startpage as often as possible, and only use google when Startpage's results aren't satisfactory.

B/ May I humbly I that suggest others add their comments and results here, and until / unless someone has a consistent fix, perhaps file a Safari bug report (under the Safari menu).

At the very least, perhaps Apple can make it easier to edit the list and the order of search engines in the search engine tool bar.

/MBPro, 10.6.8, Safari 5.12

I had the same problem, Google uses javascript to transform the URL at click, so a javascript blocker set to block that specific script will solve this problem.

let us know by posting if you come across either the specific script, or a blocker...

http://javascript-blocker.toggleable.com/

I set it to "allow" mode, and the used trial and error on Google's search results to block the offending script.

Blocking this seems to work:

^http:\/\/www\.google\.com\.au\/extern_js

\/f\/CgJlbhICYXUrMEU4ACwrMFo4ACwrMA44ACwrMB

c4ACwrMDw4ACwrMFE4ACwrMFk4ACwrMAo4AJoCA

mNjLCswmAE4ACwrMBY4ACwrMBk4ACwrMCs4AJoC

C2pzX3JlZGlyZWN0LCswNTgALCswQTgALCswTTgAL

CswTjgALCswUzgALCswVDgALCswaTgALCswkAE4AC

wrMJIBOAAsKzCXATgALCswowE4ACwrMKcBOAAsKz

DRATgALCsw2AE4ACwrMB04ACwrMFw4ACwrMBg4AC

wrMCY4ACyAAmaQAmQ\/ADMkRO1SQEg\.js$

Just want to add that I have this exact same problem too.

It was pointed out in another thread that the Detox Safari extension by Shaun Inman could solve the problem. You can get it from

http://shauninman.com/archive/2012/01/19/detox

I've installed it and it works very well. 🙂

Works for me, thank you.