If I understand you correctly Matt, you mean the score of>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10/21/02 09:46AM >>> 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
phrases and words in the searchengine output doesn't have
significant relationship to the INTsearchengine output.
Therefore, quality wise, I would rather study the INTsearchengine.
Might the next examples be a fair conclusion ?
Somebody is surfing on Google and looking
for
-"party alignment"-
-cancer-
Probably my institute (multi-discipline research institute)
would be among the hits and being visited.
But I could not say this surfer was looking for my institute.
Another surfer is doing the same search but knows about
my institutes existance and wants to limit his/her hits.
-"party alignment" and NIWI
-cancer- and NIWI
I didnt check it, but would think also this surfer would find
our institute, finding this phrase and word somewhere in title
or meta tags (do searchengines plan to leave metatags out ???).
This surfer would mean something more then the first surfer
who accidently also sees NIWI amongst all the hits.
But in many cases this number of hits would be small (or even very
small) compared with the number of hits in general for the specific
subjects.
But even more interesting is of course, if a surfer has found
NIWI, visits the site and is doing his/her search again within
the site. Now the INTsearchengine gives us real information
about the interests of the surfer; an INTsearchengine that scans all .html files within the site, and INTsearchengine defined as scanning search contents of fields within the numerous databases.
Again, a fair conclusion???, or am I missing an essential
point in studying the
SEARCHENGINE report (surfers looked for specific subjects and found more or less by accident a specific website -quantity-?)
INTSEARCHENGINE (surfers that visited a website, willingly or by accident) look for specific subjects within the site -quality-?).
Greetings,
Henk Schrik
tel. (31)(0)6 53612294
e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
website: http://henk.schrik.nl
or http://henk.schrik.org
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