I too am glad Moz doesn't do this. However I don't see anything wrong with ns doing this - it is only counting searches.
I do find it annoying that it terribly slows down my searches by passing through info.netscape.com. Netscape servers are terribly slow and I wish they didn't force browser users to have to go thhrough it. A searchid variable is sent to Google - maybe Netscape should use this instead to count stats.