MrAnchovy - 4:03 pm on Apr 8, 2005 (gmt 0)

I'll hazard a guess that mile long authorization string ties the ad back to the original request and the referral as well.

Again, it's impossible (as written).... and again, it's been covered before.

When the browser requests your page it passes along the referring URL. Javascript has absolutely no access to that referring URL unless it's specifically fed that information by you willingly.

If what you guys belive to be true is infact true... then we would not only have the ability to know our site's referrers, but also the referring URL prior to that. It's just not possible unless you scepfically provide that information to the javascript code like you do with colors, borders, ad sizes, etc.

Since Google doesn't have click tracking on their SERPs, they don't even know if that visitor came from their own site (they could make some high percentage guess based on the search & that the user is now requesting AdSense ads on your site... but they don't know for absolute certainty).

[edited by: MrAnchovy at 4:07 pm (utc) on April 8, 2005]