On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Michael D. Crawford wrote: > I have a page about C++ programming that gets a lot of traffic referred from > search engines when people enter various queries that include "c++". > > But analog's SEARCHQUERY report says that the search queries just include "c" > without the "++". >
Trying to grab the search queries in an automated way is a messy business. It's really not good enough to show the raw search queries, because you tend to get a lot of cruft in there, so a single query would occur on many different lines with slight variations. So some munging has to take place, and it's necessarily a bit heuristic. "+" is excluded because it's usually not significant. It's used to tell the search engines "I definitely want this word", or even just as a vague separator. -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." (Edsger W. Dijkstra) +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | Digest version: http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help-digest/ | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
