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["Francis J. Lacoste" <francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On April 1, 2011, Jonathan Lange wrote:
> Hello Launchpadders,
> 
> Huw told me that apparently half of the people who go to
> https://launchpad.net/ search for something using the search box on
> the page.
> 
> I would like to know what they are searching for, but I don't know how
> to find out, and neither does Huw.
> 
> Do you?

I do, that report is accessible from the Custom Search Engine panel. 
Unfortunately, it's not possible to share the statistics page with other 
account. 

There is a RSS feed available to show the most common terms:

Daily: 
http://www.google.com/cse/api/011948274177882366108/cse/ixpjdn21yfg/queries?hl=en

Weekly:
http://www.google.com/cse/api/011948274177882366108/cse/ixpjdn21yfg/queries?hl=en

Monthly:
http://www.google.com/cse/api/011948274177882366108/cse/ixpjdn21yfg/queries?hl=en

Overall:
http://www.google.com/cse/api/011948274177882366108/cse/ixpjdn21yfg/queries?hl=en

For reference, the top item there is firefox with 50 searches yesterday, after 
that unity with 29, last item ocs has 11 hits


But I saw that it's possible to track site search from within Google 
Analytics. I turned on the feature, so we should have that data there soon. 
Not sure of the quality of it though, since it works by looking for specific 
query parameters. Our search parameter is named field.text. With luck, it's 
only used on the search page. If note, there were will some noise in the data.

The results will be found under Content: Site Search.

-- 
Francis J. Lacoste
francis.lacoste@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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