I want to install Google Chrome for Linux (Ubuntu) from the terminal. I understand the procedure to some extent.

wget 

Please explain the structure if (of??) the above link after wget.

I have tried this command on my terminal,

wget 

The above link after wget led to downloading setup file for Chrome in GUI Firefox, so I tried it with wget and the result is the terminal saved a file on the desktop (from where I have run the command).

The text file has:

--2021-01-25 18:52:13--
Resolving ()... 142.250.76.164, 2404:6800:4009:81a::2004
Connecting to ()|142.250.76.164|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 216841 (212K) [text/html]
Saving to: ‘thank-you.html?statcb=0’
thank-you.html?stat 0%[ ] 0 --.-KB/s
thank-you.html?stat 83%[===============> ] 176.04K 878KB/s
thank-you.html?stat 100%[===================>] 211.76K 972KB/s in 0.2s
2021-01-25 18:52:14 (972 KB/s) - ‘thank-you.html?statcb=0’ saved [216841/216841]
-- END OF TEXT FILE

Why is this happening? Where to get that link saying,

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