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Re:DuckDuckGo Sponsorship By The Numbers by johnrob on Thursday June 03, 2010 @05:02PM (#1402540)
"DuckDuckGo does not include referrer information in their links. This means that when you click on a link at DuckDuckGo, the site you are going to does not know where you come from."

Assuming they're refering to an ad, and not a search result, why not just link to http://www.mysite.com/?ref=ddg ?

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Re:DuckDuckGo Sponsorship By The Numbers by masklinn on Friday June 04, 2010 @06:13AM (#1403927)
They probably didn't think of it initially, and then discovered the lack of referrer.
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