newshound wrote:

It's the links that start with Google, then all the search terms, and
have the target buried inside it somewhere that irritate me.

Usually when google has returned a PDF? e.g.

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=33&ved=2ahU KEwjvoL2H6rXpAhVxtXEKHWadA8gQFjAgegQIDhAB&url=http s%3A%2F%2Fwww.ukri.org%2Ffiles%2Fresearch-questions-for-covid-19%2F&usg=AOvVaw1kxkOJCnN-ztVWR60op22I

you can pick the bones out of it by hand, and translate the various html
escape codes, but I tend to click the link, that follows google's
redirection, then in firefox's download list, right click and copy
location, which gives e.g.

https://www.ukri.org/files/research-questions-for-covid-19