lego_maniac - 4:34 am on Mar 11, 2005 (gmt 0)

Why is everyone attacking Alexa? Ask Jeeves does it too. About.com does it too. Even Yahoo Directory uses the exact same 302 method to track clicks.

Do a search for site:rds.yahoo.com and you'll see thousands of inurl:somedomain.com. Perform a manual get of the links and you'll find that even Yahoo is using 302 redirects to send visitors to the destination page. Hijacked by Yahoo? Thousands (millions?) of other websites use outbound click-tracking, the majority use some form of redirect/refresh.

The Internet is not the problem.
Google is not the Internet.

All this energy could better be directed at the folks actually responsible for the SERPs. (hint, starts with 'G')