strange yahoo referal

any ideas

[mack]

Anyone have any idea what this referal is. Doesnt seam to be yahoogle!

srd.yahoo.com/goo/%22free+jpegs%22/2/T=1028165088/F=b5f9e34968450
e5e14fb62f9e0da6809/*http://mysite.com/my
directory/mypage.htm

[mack]

anyone??? :(

[bobriggs]

How about a guess?

These are google backfill (web pages results)

Your logs probably mainly show a referer such as:

[google.yahoo.com...]

But if you mouse over the yahoo results and look at the actual link in the status bar, or view source, you'll see this T= and F= stuff.

This is a link to a redirector, which probably logs the click counts. My guess is that T= is a date/time stamp (because it's constant for each result in the serp. F= must id the site then.

The referer you got was most likely from a MAC user - Win users show the google.yahoo.com address in the address bar, but the MAC implementations use the link you clicked on, because you actually got there from a Location: header during the redirection.

[whats up skip]

I could be wrong but the string has "goo" in it and the string looks a bit like it is encoding for Japanese or Chinese type characters. The "goo" may refer to the Japanese language search engine "goo" owned by NEC.

We run a Japanese language site and we have many somewhat similar referrals, but the structure of the string will vary depending on what encoding your browser or log file program is using.

[martin]

I'm running an English language site, I moved it recently and it was out of Google for a month (those DNS caches).

Anyway I have referrers like that since the Google update.