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I also tried this and my clipboard contained http://www.test.com/.
Maybe due to running Seamonkey instead of Firefox?
Yes, trying with Firefox I get the google redirect, http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAoQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.test.com%2F&rct=j&q=test&ei=C3ZTS_OqM5DusQPUzPX9Bw&usg=AFQjCNH21KLjC0CBkjon2DwD_CZ0HApLMw
So it is a Firefox thing.

They do go to the appropriate site, the problem is with copying.
Example:

Try this search:
http://www.google.ca/#hl=en&source=hp&q=test

When I right click on the first result and select "Copy Link Location" this is copied into clipboard:
http://www.google.ca/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=1&ved=0CAwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.test.com%2F&rct=j&q=test&ei=oVVTS-OLLZDaNvi07ckK&usg=AFQjCNH21KLjC0CBkjon2DwD_CZ0HApLMw&sig2=XUrAwjyb2j3qHcQzz4LwTg

While the actual URL is:
http://www.test.com/
Which is visible at the bottom of each result. For longer URLs though, it is truncated and you won't be able to copy the proper URL unless you open that result. For a single URL it's a minor inconvenience, but not when doing it several times.

http:test.com
http://test.com/
test://test.com
://test.com
http://test.com/
ftp://test.com

http:test.com
http://test.com/
test://test.com
://test.com
http://test.com/
ftp://test.com

http:test.com
http://test.com/
test://test.com
://test.com
http://test.com/
ftp://test.com

My favorite thing about Quicktime is how it somehow maliciously registers itself as the *only* way Internet Explorer can view a PNG image. Apparently Apple didn't get the memo about IE7. So click a http://test.com/test.png link and be prepared to wait half an hour while Quicktime does-- whatever the hell it does. Then when it finally shows the image, there's no way to resize or save it like you can with a JPG or GIF.

But it gets better. Quicktime also tries to auto-update itself when it detects a newer version. But apparently the IE plug-in writers didn't get the memo that Quicktime can run GUI-less as a PNG viewer inside IE. So while you're trying to view a PNG, what you actually get is a dialog saying "do you want to update Quicktime?" which is attached to no windows and impossible to answer without force-quitting IE. Most of this time this dialog opens *behind* the IE window.

As far as I can tell it's impossible to turn off this "helpful" feature in Quicktime's or IE's options.

Apple software (on Windows at least) just bites. I was actually pleasantly surprised by Safari, not because it's all that good, but because it's not a giant ball of crap like Quicktime and iTunes are. (I won't get into iTunes; I have work to do. Suffice it to say that Microsoft's Zune might be popular, but the software runs a dozen times better than iTunes.)

That is impressive, but I imagine that any catch-all email addresses at foo.com or test.com might beat even that.

http://www.test.com/ craz

http://www.test.com/

Ooh shiny!

Testing a post with a URL..
www.test.com

test1 Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 3.8).

test2 Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 3.8).

test2 Your comment has too few characters per line (currently 3.8).