The redirect should be the other way around. You can click on the three dots on any search result on google and then click the share button which gives you a google-trackable link to the search result. They may have implemented it in other apps where they see the need to track users.

E.g. searching "mailop" on google and then sharing the mailop.org search result may give you https://share.google/hUodPnCKyG7xXAJF2 which gives you a 302 redirect to https://www.google.com/share.google?q=hUodPnCKyG7xXAJF2. The site then 301 redirects you to https://www.mailop.org/.

Users usually don't care about the link and just use it in their messages or, of course, a malicious person may use it to obfuscate the real destination.

Cheers,
Norbert

On 21/09/2026 22:43, ndrs via mailop wrote:
Does anyone get messages containing *legitimate* URLs like the follows:

https://www.google.com/share.google?q=xxxxxxxx

(where xxxxxxxx is random alphanumeric string)

Looks like a redirect to https://share.google which is link shortener for 
Google Apps?
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