What is this? Google doing forwarding? http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.somesite.com will forward to somesite.com Does anybody know what this is used for? (I searched DP and didn't find anything)
It's one of two things: 1) It's part of Google random experiment with tracking outbound clicks 2) You are logged into Google and uses it's My Search History feature and it is recording your searches for later reference by you through your control panel
Thanks MidWest for that thread. I thought it was weird because someone actually was using a link like that on their webpage to link to another part of their site microtony: did you click on the orig. link I posted? It won't work because the domain somesite.com refuses the connection. BTW, whoever has somesite.com must have tons of BLs LOL.
I don't have proof that it will blow out the 302 redirect bug should a site be caught in one, as I mentioned in that thread, but there may be other reasons to use a url such as that, perhaps an attempt at stopping someone from using articlebot or some cloaking method to serve another site's content. It would make sense that such scripts would avoid anything with google.com in the url... and I do wonder what the googlebot would do with such a link.