I've just noticed in my www.live.com in my referrer logs. On visiting the website I discover it's Windows Live. I don't know anything about Windows Live (beta), I'm just wondering whether this is a new traffic source or is it just the result of an MSN search from the Windows Live site?
Yea, That happened to me. The new Live search engine is MSN's new search engine that it is soon going to launch. If you have queried something you'll notice that live.com returns endless amounts of results (i.e. there are no pages; you just keep scrolling). Therefore when someone finds your link and goes to your site live.com is the referrer. It actually kind of sucks because you don't know what they looked for. (i.e. search.msn.com%20keyword) Skinny
I like the continuous scroll feature, it should bring in more visitors for items listed further down the SERPs. I think it is possible to get keyword info from referral as when you do a search the url shows live.com/#q=keyword&offset=4 but most standard stats software will ignore this. Maybe they'll change # to ? when it comes out of beta. Awstats doesn't even recognise it as a search engine yet.
Yup I got a proper referrer string from Live.com a few days ago as well.. I think they added it because the referrer was simply "www.live.com" when it first launched.
thanks for letting us know live dotcom but on opera it doesnt load faster so i will stick to Go........