Home
Guide
Tools List
News
Background
Search
About Us


SearchTools.com

Search Tools News 2008


May 7, 2008

A First Taxonomy of Search Log Junk

Search logs contain a lot of weird things, and some of them can have a significant effect on search log analysis. Having looked at tens of thousand lines of search log entries, I offer this first attempt at defining some of the weirdest and least useful kinds of log entry, which I call "Search Log Junk". Here are the types of junk that I've seen most frequently: empty queries, repeat queries, robot crawlers, server hacks, search field/guestbook spam, and internal test queries. More...

February - April, 2008: updates to the site suspended due to injury

 

Recent & Interesting Search Links
(my Furl archive)

 


SearchTools News, like a Blog, since 1998. / RSS feed / [Valid RSS] (validates as RSS)

» Blogs that link here (via Technorati)

Site change details

For earlier news, see the 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999 and 1998 news archive pages

Last Update: 2007-12-20

Home
Guide
Tools List
News
Search
About Us
SearchTools.com - Copyright © 2008 Search Tools Consulting
This work is provided under a Creative Commons Sampling Plus 1.0 License.