search referal from drs.yahoo.com

never saw this one before

[mayor]

Never saw this one in my logs until today, a single search from drs.yahoo.com

Anyone have a clue what this is about?

[marcs]

Noticed those before. About 8 of them in logs this month.

It appears to me that it may be clicks that are being tracked for whatever purpose. Sample (modified) log line :

xxx.yyy.net - - [10/Jul/2003:14:40:35 -0700] "GET /filename.html HTTP/1.1" 200 10106 "http://drs.yahoo.com/S=2766679/K=keyword1+keyword2/v=2/SID=e/l=WS1/R=48/H=0/*-http://www.domain_name.com/filename.html" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.0; Mac_PowerPC)"

If you point a browser to the yahoo URL, you see it redirect (or fail here as the URL was modified), which is what makes me believe it is a redirect/tracking setup to track clicks.