Re: [Summary-Talk] Google search engine totals

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Maybe there's a way you can use wildcards so that future Google site 
releases will be automatically detected if they keep the same URL format.

Amazingly, that two-year-old software we still use a little actually 
recognizes Google India (et al) as search engines, presumably because of 
some kind of wildcard setting they used.

Kevin
LynuxWorks webmaster





Jason Linhart wrote:
> 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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