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Re:The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exc... by cobbal on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @12:41PM (#3182892)
If you're going from an HTTPS site to a HTTP site, then your browser doesn't send a referer header, so they can't really know you came from google.
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Re:The power of Google: how the Panda update hit Experts Exc... by a_m0d on Tuesday November 01, 2011 @01:16PM (#3183050)
True, but it still does break google's requirement that the page Google sees must be the same as the one Google's user sees (which was the original reason they did this anyway).
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