Strange Google Referral from the Plex

Anyone seen this before?

[skippy]

Just wondering if anyone has seen this before or knows what it means? The ip is from google.

[google.com...]

Thanks
Skippy

[Prolific]

Google has been doing this for a while, they're using an onclick javascript redirect to help them track click throughs. Its been reported it does this almost 100% of the time for firefox users.

[skippy]

Thanks Prolific. That must be it. I had read about that but did not make the connection. And yes they were browsing with FireFox. I wonder what they are up to with just tracking FireFox users that way?

[larryhatch]

Since Firefox users are more sophisticated and intelligent on average, maybe G
wants to track their browsing habits to help fine tune their ranking algorithms.
I'm sure they had [e-mail] scoped out early on. -LH