UPDATE: Google support has been removed, as their tracking no longer occurs via a redirection. See this issue for more information.
When searching using google, the result links don't go directly to the site - they first send the user to an interim "redirecting" page, which they use to keep track of user's search results
Usually, this isn't a problem, but sometimes when you're on a slow connection, or want to send friends a link straight from the search results, this just gets in the way.
Undirect is a simple chrome extension that removes this tracking and redirection from google search results.
Works for all google domains across all countries, and is very light-weight.