MacOS – How to force Safari to show me Google search result pages in history

Within a new window or tab, clicking on the magnifying glass will drop down the recent searches menu.

This menu will drop dow, too, if you just type a space or empty the search bar by deleting.

You can use the Detox extension for Safari and Chrome, which fixes this on Google and Twitter.

This happens because Google switched to a client-side redirect for their tracking links (in JavaScript, I think) so the browser thinks the tracking page is the page you wanted. I'm not sure why. Twitter does the same thing, but it's so that they can grab the referer when you click on a t.co link from a client or another website.