[Summary-Talk] What qualifies as a search engine?

[Luc Dubois <luc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

The following URLs are search engines, but when I use a filter to
limit a report (monthly referring domains) to search engines, they
don't appear in the report.
- find.in.gr
- (suche.)web.de
- www.anazitisis.gr

Is there a way to update this locally by the (adventurous) user?

Also, for the MSN family of search engines I noticed a strange
situation: msn.it, msn.de, msn.fr, etc are all recognized as search
engines, but msn.com is not (anymore, it used to be), instead only
search.msn.com is recognized as a search engine. For AOL we have a
similar situation. So it seems that for the worldwide versions, the
preference goes to <SEARCH.domain.com>, while for the localized
version, the simple <domain.tld> is used.

For historical overviews (graphs covering more than 3 years now) I
export the monthly referring domains to Excel format and manually add
the old (e.g. msn.com) to the new (e.g. search.msn.com) data. Is
there a smarter way to do this (by aliasing one SE to another in
Summary e.g.)?

Contrary to the principle above, we find YAHOO.com defined as a
search engine, but SEARCH.yahoo.com is not (but is used to be).
Moreover, no distinction is made for the localized version (which for
Yahoo take a URL in the form of (e.g) <DE.yahoo.com> or <IT.yahoo.com>).

Again, is there some tweaking that the user can do to customized this?

Thanks,

Luc
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