MSN Drops Referer Data
After doing my usual round of log checks, I've noticed something funny in my logfiles. I seemed to have dropped a major number of keywords in MSN. After digging around a bit more, it appears there's a bug at play with the new MSN Search. Due to some new javascript code (onclick) launched over at MSN, clickthroughs are no longer passing the Referer HTTP Header. I verified this on one of my sites with both IE (6.0) and Firefox (1.5).
Looks like this was noticed over at WMW also..
- Y! MyWeb
Referer
As commented on the following days ago:
http://www.threadwatch.org/node/8808
http://blogs.msdn.com/livesearch/archive/2006/09/11/750079.aspx
http://www.onlinehoster.com/blog/msn-search-changes-to-live-search/
Been on SERoundtable. This
Been on SERoundtable.
This is a bug, and not how i's meant to work.
LOL
> This is a bug, and not how i's meant to work.
Isn't that the MS motto by now?
It's not a bug. It's a feature.
Pfffffftttttttttt!!!!!!!!