Google AdWords Goes Not Provided: Referrer Data Gone For Paid Search Ads
What is changing is that the advertiser will not see the full referrer data, including the keyword string, passed through to their server. In short, when someone goes to Google, searches for widget and then clicks on your ad, Google would communicate …
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Google On IE8 Drops SSL & Passes Full Referrer
Google Analytics & Internet Explorer 8 If you are using Internet Explorer 8 and go to Google, the default experience will not be over SSL and thus the referrer data will pass in full to the webmaster. Google has switched their search results page to …
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IE8 Users Don't Get Forwarded To Google Secure Search
With this current switch, the full set of referrer data including the keyword used in the query is passed on to webmasters, since it is secure search that removes this. Here's a look at a test of this by Barry Schwartz. Notice the URL starts with http …
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