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[Benji York <benji.york@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 8:46 AM, Julian Edwards
<julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 01 April 2011 12:57:39 Jonathan Lange wrote:
>> On Fri, Apr 1, 2011 at 12:48 PM, Julian Edwards
>>
>> <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On Friday 01 April 2011 12:05:55 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?
>> >
>> > If it's using a GET form, the Apache logs I presume?  How does Huw know
>> > they are searching for things in the first place? :)
>>
>> How would I get the data from the Apache logs?
>>
>> Huw was using Google Analytics, which doesn't have this data, apparently.
>
> I don't know if we scan the Apache logs but at least on my personal server I
> run webalizer which tells me what search terms brought them to my site.

I thought this was about the users who went to http://launchpad.net/
then proceeded to use the on-page search box, not the people who arrived
there as the result of a (search engine) search.
-- 
Benji York