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Unless I'm way off, Google is already doing a redirection script on all outbound clicks. The endpoint url shows up in the footer of the browser on hover, but i
by ryanwaggoner 18y ago
Unless I'm way off, Google is already doing a redirection script on all outbound clicks. The endpoint url shows up in the footer of the browser on hover, but if you right-click and copy the link location, you get something like:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=4&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FY_Combinator&ei=k8KISfaEJpGksQOturCOBg&usg=AFQjCNGLIQ4vyID6JQEC5r9XGE36mIoZUg&sig2=CZQgmDgORRcK6IceMaiCsQ http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&...
- pj 18y agoYep, that's right. Could this be a subtle move to require people use google Analytics instead of their own log file analysis?
- schammy 18y agoThat doesn't affect the referrer though. The referrer is still the link where the click came fromo, which woulld still be e.g. google.com/search?q=whatever The redirect script has been tehre for as long as I remember. It's probably tied in with Google Analytics.
- lacker 18y agoThe author says he is seeing referers of just "google.com/" in his logs. If they were redirected wouldn't he be seeing these /url pages instead?