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allinurl / goaccess

GoAccess is a real-time web log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in a terminal in *nix systems or through your browser.
https://goaccess.io
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Plans to track other search engines such as Yahoo, Bing, Duckduckguo etc. in addition to Google? #2683

Open hg2581 opened 1 month ago

hg2581 commented 1 month ago

See subject.

allinurl commented 1 month ago

I'm curious, what kind of data are you looking to track from them? I'd also be interested to know if Bing, Yahoo, and other search engines still send search keywords in their referrer data.

hg2581 commented 1 month ago

I think reports for the other major search engines similar to the one you generate for Google would be valuable. Can this be done?

allinurl commented 1 month ago

I'm not entirely sure I understand. Could you clarify what you're aiming to include? Maybe provide an example of the output you anticipate GoAccess displaying and explain how the search engine data appears in your log currently? Thanks

hg2581 commented 1 month ago

On May 23, 2024 6:14:01 PM GMT-04:00, "Gerardo O." @.***> wrote:

I'm not entirely sure I understand. Could you clarify what you're aiming to include? Maybe provide an example of the output you anticipate GoAccess displaying and explain how the search engine data appears in your log currently? Thanks

Goaccess currently has a chart showing referrals from Google. I am suggesting adding similar charts for referrals from the other search engines.

allinurl commented 1 month ago

Got it. So, going back to my original question, I don't think any of the search engines include the search queries in the referral anymore. Do you know what information we can extract from those search engines that gets passed to the website via the referrer?

hg2581 commented 1 month ago

On May 23, 2024 8:56:20 PM GMT-04:00, "Gerardo O." @.***> wrote:

Got it. So, going back to my original question, I don't think any of the search engines include the search queries in the referral anymore. Do you know what information we can extract from those search engines that gets passed to the website via the referrer?

I do not. Can you not just test it on your test website with those engines as referrers? Then you would also see the exact format.