Google home page has spurious characters in address line. Why?

I have recently rebooted my machine after getting some issues with it.I reset the home page to Google after hopefully fixing it. There is now an issue with the home page address:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=qZ7jVJfvLNCq8wf-jIDwCw&gws_rd=ssl - what are teh surious characters after Google.co.uk?
How can they be removed? I reset homepgae and search engines but nothing happened
Thank you
Regards
Simon

Did you bookmark only google.co.uk? If I try that hostname, I get:
https://www.google.co.uk/?gws_rd=ssl
That stuff after ".uk/" refers to the page being encrypted, but I have no idea what the rest is in your link.

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