That's an excellent suggestion; one that recognizes the increasingly global
nature of the Web.
Keith Purtell, Web Designer
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> Subject: [analog-help] Interesting use for the Search report
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>
>
> I was showing a friend how to use Analog to learn something about how
> his site is being used when I can across an interesting entry in the
> Referrer report.
>
> The entry was a referrer from a Translator site, and looked something
> like this:
http://translator.go.com/cb/trans_entry?input_type=url&url=analog.cx&lp=en_s
p
>
> translator.go.com is a site that will translate a give page into a
> different language - in this case, translating analog.cx from
> English to
> Spanish. There was only one such entry in my friends logs,
> but I imagine
> that some people might see more such entries in their logs
>
> It struck me that you might be able to treat referrers like
> babelfish or
> translator.go.com as Search engines, and use the Search report to get
> additional information about how many visitors to your site are using
> translation services - if you see a significant amount of
> such traffic,
> it might be worthwhile providing some information in the
> language your
> site is being translated to.
>
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