"My prediction is, in a few months, you'll be thanking Google for the much better search results."
I don't really think this is going to change anything. How is this going to affect SEO? I doubt any of them use referrers logs - waste of time. They scrape the SERPs. The old SERPs are still available. They can tell when a rank goes up or down.
It's one thing to tell what rank you are on what keyword, but quite another to track how much traffic you are getting from a specific keyword. Though I guess there's ways to estimate that.
You bring up a good point, though. Guess it's not as grand a scheme as I thought.
I don't really think this is going to change anything. How is this going to affect SEO? I doubt any of them use referrers logs - waste of time. They scrape the SERPs. The old SERPs are still available. They can tell when a rank goes up or down.
How is this going to change that?