Google starting to redirect SERPs?

[softwareengineer99]

Hello everyone.
I just noticed that Google is redirecting all search results in US through their website.

I see that in 2002 there was a discussion at [webmasterworld.com...] about Google implementing this temporarily.

I am very uncomfortable that they are doing this for many obvious reasons. What are your thoughts?

[Brett_Tabke]

Google has done clicktracking on/off since day one of their site being online.

They do redirect tracking sporadically on selected keywords. That is what you are seeing.

However, they are still doing full redirect tracking...and have been for 3 years. They moved to a JavaScript onclick tracker 3 years ago. They have used the JS tracker - on and off since then. Not sure what the qualifications are for it being on.

<script>
<!--

function ss(w){window.status=w;return true;}
function cs(){window.status='';}

function rwt(el,ct,cd,sg){
el.href="/url?sa=t&ct="+escape(ct)+"&cd="+escape(cd)+"&url="+escape(el.href).replace(/\+/g,"%2B"+"&ei=8MIAQo_E4QGz_JUj"+sg;
el.onmousedown="";return true;
}

function ga(o,e){if (document.getElementById){a=o.id.substring(1);
p = "";
r = "";
g = e.target;
if (g) { t = g.id;
f = g.parentNode;
if (f) {p = f.id;
h = f.parentNode;
if (h) r = h.id;
}} else{h = e.srcElement;
f = h.parentNode;
if (f) p = f.id;
t = h.id;
} if (t==a ¦¦ p==a ¦¦ r==a) return true;
location.href=document.getElementById(a).href}} //-->
</script>