I have noticed that randomly, the SERP links don't go directly, but via a Google-hosted redirection page. This seems to be completely random, and I have even noticed that SOME links on the same SERP can have this.
Shed any light on this?
tedster
6:52 pm on Sep 6, 2007 (gmt 0)
This occurs when Google is specifcally testing some facet of user interaction with their SERPs. To us, it appears random and usually short-lived, because they only test until they get a statistically significant amount of data. At their volume, that happens pretty fast.