Well how do the stats packages come up with "the 10 most common search keywords used to find your pages" then? There must be some variable passed that appears in the logs somewhere. No?
If that goes in the logs somewhere, it can be used, I'd have thought. But certainly I'd be very cautious about using any system that depends heavily on browser information - http_referer or suchlike, because many users block that info by way of their firewalls or because they are behind a router. You can have hundreds of people in a building using only a few ip addresses and that can skew all kinds of systems. I'm just saying don't build any application that REQUIRES info back from the browser in order to function, unless you're ready to deal with the user calls "I CAN'T GET INTO YOUR SITE! WHAT DO I DO!? YOU CALL YOURSELF A CUSTOMER ORIENTED ORGANISATION?? I'M GOING TO RESPORT YOU TO THE CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION. NO WAIT .. YOU *ARE* THE CONSUMERS ASSOCIATION! REPORT YOURSELVES THEN." Trust me, I've been there, heard all the jokes. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 12:16 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Can this be done? Hmmmm....that would seem to imply that this competitor can read the browser history (and even what was typed)....and that's not possible AFAIK because it would be a HUGE security/privacy hole. my 2 cents on a Monday morning ;-) Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------- Macromedia Associate Partner www.macromedia.com --------------------------------------------------------- Vancouver Island ColdFusion Users Group Founder & Director www.cfug-vancouverisland.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Che Vilnonis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, September 08, 2003 9:08 AM Subject: Can this be done? > Hello all.. > > I'm bidding on a job and the client told me something that a competitor > does that seems pretty amazing. > > He said that this competitor can dynamically build certain sections of > a homepage based on the search term that was used on the previous page > of a search engine site, no matter which one is used. > > I know you can look at the CGI.HTTP_REFERER value for some search engines, > but does anyone know how to do this for all sites. Is there a tool, CFC or > UDF that could do this for me? Is there an easy way to parse the info out? > > Che Vilnonis > Application Developer > Advertising Systems Incorporated > 8470C Remington Avenue > Pennsauken, NJ 08110 > p: 856.488.2211 > f: 856.488.1990 > www.asitv.com > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm
