Robert_Charlton - 5:29 am on May 1, 2004 (gmt 0)

For what it's worth, I do know that this issue is being given top priority by Y!.

WebGuerrilla - That's good news. Do you know if Google is also addressing the problem?

Also, as I mention above, what kind of redirects are we actually talking about? Inktomi had always been slow on 301s, eg, but they were second best after Google. I'm not up on how they handle 302s at all.

The redirects that have affected me are all click counting pages with meta refresh redirects, but I think they were all combined with 302s.

On the meta refresh part of this, which I'm theorizing is at least part of the problem, I still don't get why they just don't decide to treat meta refreshes within the same domain as they do now... which would take care of both splash pages and meta refresh doorway pages... but not let meta refresh redirect links take over when you jump to a different domain. For some reason, this seems too easy, and I'm thinking I must be oversimplifying the problem.

Incidentally, I first saw this problem in Google last July, and talked to Google people about it at SES in August. I first noticed the problem on Inktomi in late December or early January. And now this thread confirms sightings in the new Yahoo.