According to SEO Speedwagon, the new MSN LIVE search engine is also the engine that sends you no traffic because it does not pass referrer data to the browser and most web analytics packages won’t pick up LIVE traffic at all.

"Just yesterday, MSN launched its new "Live" version of its search engine and of course, put it on an obligatory .NET platform.

There’s one main problem with the recent relaunch of MSN Live however. It’s not passing referrer data as discussed over at SERoundtable. So what are the implications you ask? Try, you won’t have a clue what your traffic is looking like coming from MSN for the foreseeable future.

The good news is MSN is utilizing a 302 temporary redirect which provides hope that MSN is still working on some stuff prior to implementing a 301 permanent redirect that will hopefully include referral data for logs.

That should be fun - you do your SEO and then the client/stakeholder gets upset as the MSN traffic just vanished…..  Makes sense.  Flash movies have the same problem - they don’t pass any referral information - it’s hard to know what traffic your getting in these cases.