Perhaps somebody could explain because the Google help file is pretty useless in this respect but the new tool allowing stats to be split into Google and Search Partners has left me wondering just what the search partner network is? According to my stats about 90% of impressions are on, and over 50% of my clicks come through, the search network yet, according to my logs about 90% of my paid traffic comes through various Google sites and most of the rest is from Ebay (whom Google do not list as part of the search network.) So, who are these search partners? Are Google.co.uk, .ie, .fr, .de, etc. search partners as opposed to Google.com itself?
They are search engines that take their results from google - such as ask.com, aol.com, a few other 'minor' search engines and meta search engines such as dogpile. There's a list in this google group, though it is a couple of years old, and some of it is speculation http://groups.google.com/group/SEM2/browse_thread/thread/9c6a103584d881cc
Sorry, I am aware of those engines that use Google results and the sites Google list as search partners. My problem is I have almost zero traffic from any of them according to my logs i.e. aol perhaps once a week, ask once a month. Let me put the question another way. If I have 100 clicks and the adwords stats say 40 come from Google and 60 come from the search network why, then, do my logs show 90 coming from Google, 9 from Ebay and the odd one from ask or aol? Is it conceivable that traffic from many of these sources is "redirected" (in a backwards sort of way!) to show Google as the referring link?