Hi, I've got Analog 5.24 working just great including the INTSEARCHENGINE function but thought it important to point out an interesting anomaly to note.
INTSEARCHENGINE reviews the actual URL passed whereas SEARCHENGINE reviews the referring URL. This has a curious but expected result when reviewing the statistics. One thing to remember, is that when someone searches your site, they may be presented with several hits. If they click on a link, they get directed to the page in the search list, this causes a line to be logged in your site log. For external hits, this causes a search word and search query hit, if the user clicks back and clicks another link into your site, you get another line since it reviews the referring URL in the log. For internal searches, you get a single hit for the initial search query, but no extra hits for clicks to subsequent pages, clicking back and clicking another result gives extra log lines, but since it's not reviewing the referring URL, no extra search word hits. The net effect is that the internal searches yield very few results, whereas the external search can ramp up many times the number of results when in reality, it could be just a single search. Difficult to say what is right or wrong here, should analog try to amalgamate results from outside search engines to counter the extra hits? Any comments? Matt +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/analog-help@;lists.isite.net/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
