Re: [Summary-Talk] Google search engine totals

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/10/03 6:19 PM LynuxWorks Webmaster (webmaster@lnxw.com) wrote:

>Though we mostly use Summary, we do still use an older version of a 
>competitor's software for a few things, out of habit, and we are slowly 
>phasing it out.
>
>From time to time, we've noticed some pretty wide variations in the 
>numbers of reported search hits, and it looks like the other software 
>sometimes over-reports figures in relation to Summary for some reason (I 
>think it's counting some things twice, though I can't be sure).

Summary only counts one external referrer per visit. Some proxy servers 
send the same external referrer with every hit of the visit, resulting in 
over counts in programs that count every occurrence.

>Anyhow, while trying to compare Summary's figures with that of the other 
>software, one thing I noticed is that Summary doesn't seem to 
>consistently pick up all the Google engines around the world for 
>inclusion on certain reports and search-engine totals.
>
>In Summary 2.3.9 (Linux), our report 20 (/17/report/20?S=google&x=0&y=0) 
>is showing google.co.in (Google India) at a high ranking, but report F1 
>(/17/report/F1) omits Google India altogether.

Report 20-Referring Domains shows all of the referring domains. Report 
F1-Search Engines only lists "known" search engines, ones that are listed 
in Summary's internal database of known search engines. As of Summary 
2.3.9, Google India is not a known search engine. Google has been adding 
countries so quickly that it has been difficult for us to keep up. India 
is one of the newer ones. It will be included in a future release, along 
with twenty six others that they added recently.

Jason

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